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2018-05-24New Director for the Ombudsman’s Office
The State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, Judge (Ret.) Joseph H. Shapira, has selected Dr. Esther Ben-Haim, or Esti as she is called by her peers, to be the new Director of the Ombudsman’s Office. Her nomination been approved by the State Audit Committee of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in November of 2017.
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2021-06-22Waka Tangata – Issue 7 of the APOR E-news now available
The Waka Tangata APOR E-News includes news and views from integrity organisations in the Pacific and Australasian Region. Issue 7of the Waka Tangata APOR E-news is now available online.
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2021-06-22The Control Yuan publishes 2020 Annual Report
Recently the Control Yuan (CY) published the 2020 Annual Report. In 2020, the CY received 13,153 people’s complaints and issued 306 investigation reports. Also 40 impeachment cases were passed and 85 corrective measure cases were proposed.The CY Annual Report 2020 is now available in English and Spanish.
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2021-06-22British Columbia and Yukon Privacy Commissioners and Ombudsman call for strengthened regulation and oversight of artificial intelligence in public sector decision-making
As humans are increasingly replaced by machines to make decisions, British Columbia and Yukon Ombudsman and Information and Privacy Commissioners are calling on governments to protect fairness and privacy when artificial intelligence (AI) is used in public service delivery. A special report released today, Getting Ahead of the Curve, raises a number of fairness and privacy concerns that impact the public.
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2021-06-2123. Reporte semanal “Derechos humanos en perspectiva internacional”
Les hacemos llegar el 23. Reporte Semanal de “Derechos Humanos en Perspectiva Internacional” elaborado por el Programa de Observación y Asistencia para el Fortalecimiento de las Defensorías del Pueblo, que forma parte de la Unidad de Política Institucional de la Defensoría del Pueblo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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2021-06-21Human Rights Defender’s independent monitoring of electoral process 2021
On June 20, voting day for snap parliamentary elections in the Republic of Armenia, the Office of the Human Rights Defender received 59 alarming calls and complaints concerning the electoral process and 570 social media and media publications were examined.
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2021-06-21Parliamentary Ombudsman publishes Annual Report 2020
The Ombudsman’s work in 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 situation and a relatively large number of complaints, among other things. This is evident from the newly published Annual Report.
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2021-02-26Cyprus - The Combating of Racism and Other Discrimination (Commissioner) Law, 2004 - EN
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2021-10-20Jornadas de debate sobre deuda pública y derechos
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2021-03-16Belgium - Flemish Ombudsman Service - Annual Report 2015 - NL
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2021-06-18PACE side event on Monday, 21 June 2021: Should politicians be prosecuted for statements made in the exercise of their mandate?
The Catalan Ombudsman is organizing an online side event to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to discuss freedom of expression in accordance with the European Convention of Human Rights.
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2021-08-18Défenseur des droits – Parallel Report – Examination of the initial report by France on the implementation of the CRPD (July 2021)
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2021-08-18Défenseur des droits – Rapport parallèle – Examen du rapport initial de la France sur la mise en oevre de la CIDPH (juillet 2021)
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2021-06-17Provincial Ombudsman Sindh published research study on "Issues of Girls' Education in Sindh"
The IOI is pleased to share the research study on "Issues of Girls' Education in Sindh" conducted on the initiative of the Provincial Ombudsman Sindh in collaboration with Sindh Education Foundation (SEF). The study, which was published in December 2020, has been supported by the IOI's Regional Subsidies programme.
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2021-06-16Ombudsperson calls for sweeping changes to separate confinement of youth in custody
Following a three-year investigation Ombudsperson Jay Chalke finds the use of separate confinement in B.C.’s youth custody centres is unjust, unsafe and disproportionately impacts Indigenous youth.
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2021-06-16Webinar on systemic investigations - video record available to re-watch
On 8 June 2021 the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC), in collaboration with the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI), organized an online discussion on the topic of “Systemic Investigations”. For those of you who did not have the opportunity to watch the webinar life, you may re-watch the video record on YouTube.
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2021-06-16President addresses opening ceremony of the Third Latin American Congress on Restorative Justice
Chris Field, President of the International Ombudsman Institute and Western Australian Ombudsman, delivered an opening address to the 3rd Latin American Restorative Justice Congress.
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2020-08-26Municipal Ombudsman of Zürich - Annual Report 2016 - German
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2021-03-22Albania - Report on the area of Astir - 2019 - EN
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2021-06-14Northern Ireland Ombudsman proposes new complaints handling standards for public bodies
The Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman, Margaret Kelly, has today called for a culture change in the way public bodies in Northern Ireland deal with complaints from members of the public. Her comments came as a new survey showed two thirds of people who were dissatisfied with the level of service from a public body said they would not complain as they thought it would make no difference or be too trivial.