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2021-06-08Dublin Declaration adopted by IOI General Assembly
The Dublin Declaration sets out the contribution Ombudsman organisations will make to the UN Agenda 2030, especially the prerequisite of leaving ‘no one behind’ and ensuring that all persons can fulfil their potential in equality. The declaration commits to working towards achieving equality of access to vaccination, urging vaccines to be treated as a global public good to be made available equally around the globe.
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2021-06-14
Northern 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.
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2021-06-14
Police force runs intelligence training with Ombudsman investigators
Officers of the Ombudsman undertook a short training on how Intelligence could be used to help boost their investigations. The training was coordinated by the Director of the National Intelligence Unit, Superintendent Frazer Tambe.
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2021-06-14
Complaints about public services remain high despite pandemic
Complaints to Ombudsman Peter Tyndall about public services, such as those provided by government departments, local authorities and the HSE, remained high in 2020 despite the pandemic.
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2021-06-14
ACRC runs virtual anti-corruption training for countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea will run an online training course for three days from May 25, 2021 to share its anti-corruption polices and experiences with countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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2021-06-16
Ombudsperson 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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2021-06-16
Webinar 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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2021-06-16
President 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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2021-06-17The dismissal of Ms. Renate Weber - the Romanian Ombudsperson. Renate Weber - the Romanian Ombudsperson
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2021-06-17
statement-by-the-office-of-the-people-s-advocate-of-romania.pdf
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2021-06-17
Provincial 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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2021-06-18
PACE 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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2021-06-21
Ombudsman contributes to FIO publication on Covid-19 states of emergencies
In the scope of an initiative of the Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsman (FIO) on the exceptional measures decreed by Member-States in the scope of the combat and of the mitigation of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ombudsman Office drafted a chapter on the State of Emergency in Portugal.
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2021-06-21
Human 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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2021-06-21
Parliamentary 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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2021-06-22
Waka 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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2021-06-22
The 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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2021-06-22
OMB-GettingAheadoftheCurve-v6.pdf
British Columbia Ombudsperson - Getting Ahead of the Curve: Meeting the Challenges to Privacy and Fairness Arising from the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector (March 2014) EN (2,6 MiB)
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2021-06-22
British 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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