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2021-04-30CCPO asks IOI members for contributions to its survey on COVID-19 Vaccine Passports
The Canadian Council of Parliamentary Ombudsman (CCPO) has asked the IOI Secretariat to distribute a short survey on COVID-19 Vaccine Passports among its IOI members.
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2021-05-03
Protector of Citizens as independent monitoring mechanism over the rights of persons with disabilities
The Action Plan for implementing the Strategy for Improving the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Serbia from 2020 to 2024 designates the Protector of Citizens to act as the national monitoring mechanism on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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2021-05-03
The Pandemic Changed Complaints Made to Saskatchewan’s Ombudsman in 2020
The 2020 annual reports for Saskatchewan’s Ombudsman and Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner, Mary McFadyen, were tabled in the Legislature today. While some complaints to her Office continued as usual, the pandemic affected others. Complaints about long-term care facilities and correctional centres increased, but complaints about Social Services, SGI and Crown utilities decreased. Twelve of the 41 contacts made to her Office under The Public Interest Disclosure Act were related to the pandemic.
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2021-05-06
Ombudsman says that younger people in nursing homes have ’wasted lives’
Following his investigation into the placement of people under 65 in nursing homes, Ombudsman Peter Tyndall said that those he spoke with told him they had no option but to live in nursing homes due to a lack of support from the State.
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2021-05-06
2021 UNESCO Survey on Public Access to Information deadline extended to 21 May 2021
UNESCO has extended the deadline of the 2021 UNESCO Survey on Public Access to Information (SDG Indicator 16.10.2) to 21 May 2021 and invites IOI members to take part in it.
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2021-05-06
International Ombudsman Institute 2021 Virtual Conference and General Assembly
We would like to remind members that the International Ombudsman Institute’s 12th General Assembly and World Conference will take place as an online event from 25 - 27 May 2021. Registration is possible until 15 May 2021.
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2021-05-06
Skúli Magnússon elected new Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland
On April 26, the Althingi, the Parliament of Iceland, elected Skúli Magnússon, President of the District Court of Reykjavik, as the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
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2021-05-07
Meeting of the European members of the International Ombudsman Institute chaired by the Catalan Ombudsman
The assembly discussed future challenges and the work carried out during the last two years. Rafael Ribó, until now president of the European Chapter, will hand over to the Greek Ombudsman, Andreas Pottakis.
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2021-05-11
Statement Of The African Ombudsman and Mediators Association on the Situation of Internally Displaced Persons in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique
The African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA) expresses concern about developments in Northern Mozambique where violence from Islamist insurgents has resulted in displacement of people, the majority of them women and children, from Palma in Cabo Delgado Province since October 2017.
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2021-05-14
PHSO starts to regularly publish casework
On Thursday 29 April 2021, PHSO started the routine publication of their primary and detailed investigations on their website. You can view their cases on their new publishing platform. They published around 15 of their decisions and will continue to publish cases on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. The number of cases they publish will gradually increase over the next few months.
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2021-05-14Joint Statement in Support of the Polish NHRI_ENG.pdf
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2021-05-14
Joint Statement in Support of the Polish NHRI_PL.pdf
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2021-05-14
Direct Investigation Reports: Regulatory Regime for Lifts and Escalators and Management and Repair of Public Toilets
The Ombudsman of Hong Kong, China, Ms Winnie Chiu, held a press conference on 13 May 2021 to announce the results of two own-motion investigations regarding the regulatory regime for lifts and escalators and the management and repair of public toilets by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and Architectural Services Department.
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2021-05-14
Provincial Ombudsperson Jay Chalke reappointed for second term
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia today reappointed Jay Chalke as British Columbia’s Ombudsperson for a second six-year term. The appointment followed the unanimous recommendation of the legislature’s Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.
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2021-05-14
Joint statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights
The IOI together with five other international human rights organisations published a joined statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights today, 14 May 2021.
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2021-05-14
Online press conference – The Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB) presented their 2020 annual report
The members of the Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB), Mr Bernhard Achitz, Mr Walter Rosenkranz and Mr Werner Amon presented on the basis of the annual report the AOB’s investigation results from 2020 and gave, on the basis of some selected complaints and their own perceptions, an insight into the work of the monitoring and human rights institution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the AOB published its annual report in three volumes for the first time. In addition to Volume 1 ‘Monitoring of public administration’ and Volume 2 ‘Preventive human rights monitoring’, Volume 3 ‘Covid-19’ covers all those observations related to the 2020 Covid-19 measures.
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2021-05-19
The Ombudsman de Montréal tabled her 2020 annual report
The Ombudsman de Montréal, Ms Nadine Mailloux, tabled her annual report for the year 2020 to City Council. Presented under the theme "Here for you", the report shows a record number of complaints with 2,150 files handled, including 498 new investigations, 20 of which were initiated by the OdM, compared with 1,966 files handled in 2019.
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2021-05-19
European Ombudsman launches broad inquiry into Commission handling of staff ‘revolving doors’ cases
European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has launched a wide-ranging inquiry into how the Commission handles so-called ‘revolving doors’ cases among its staff. The inquiry is part of a reinforced monitoring of how the EU administration implements the ethics obligations on EU staff who move to the private sector.
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2021-05-20
2020 Annual Report of the CCAC of Macao published in Official Gazette
The 2020 Annual Report of the Commission Against Corruption of Macao was published in the Official Gazette of the Macao Special Administrative Region on 20 May 2021. In 2020, under the pandemic, the CCAC still carried out the actions in the areas of anti-corruption, ombudsman and promotion and education in a pragmatic and orderly way in accordance with its plan.
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2021-05-20
The Basque Ombudsman presented its Guidelines for responding to cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation in the Basque Country
The Guidelines aim at improving co-ordination between the different authorities and services intervening in cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation (health and social services, legal assistance, prosecution service and justice).
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