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2020-12-23Season’s greetings and a happy new year
The IOI General Secretariat wishes you all a festive holiday season and a happy New Year!Le Secrétariat général vous souhaite d'excellentes fêtes de fin d'année et une très bonne année !¡La Secretaría General del IIO les desea a todos unas fiestas llenas de felicidad y lo mejor para el año nuevo!
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2020-04-10
Parliamentary Ombudsman nominates new Human Rights Delegation
On 27 March 2020, Petri Jääskeläinen, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, nominated a new Human Rights Delegation to serve a term from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2024. The Delegation has 38 members; a total of 134 people applied to join the Human Rights Delegation.
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2020-02-10
Ombudsman organized seminar on combating discrimination
In the framework of the regional project on “strengthening access to justice through non-judiciary redress mechanisms for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in Eastern Partnership countries” which is funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe through the Partenship for Good Governance II programme, a training seminar on combating discrimination was organized in by the Ombudsman in January 2020.
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2020-10-08
Ombudsman Sindh approved research agreement to utilize IOI regional subsidies
The Provincial Ombudsman Sindh has approved a research study with Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) entitled study on “Issues of Girls’ Education in Sindh”, funded by IOI through Regional Subsidy Programme 2018-2019.
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2020-07-20
PHSO publishes its 2019-20 Annual Report
On July 20 the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) publishes its 2019-20 Annual Report.
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2019-12-16
Hong Kong Ombudsman’s direct into arrangements for depositing layout plans of public pleasure grounds
The Ombudsman of Hong Kong, Ms Winnie Chiu, today (12 December) announced the completion of a direct investigation into the arrangements for depositing layout plans of public pleasure grounds (PPGs) in the Land Registry (LR) by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD). The investigation report has been uploaded to the website of the Office of The Ombudsman for public information.
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2020-01-24
Attorney-general refers to ‘Venice Principles’ to support Cypriot Ombudswoman over administrative audit
Cypriot attorney-general Costas Clerides has rejected a demand by the country’s auditor-general that a criminal investigation be carried out against the Ombudswoman. In his legal opinion the attorney-general made strong reference to the Venice Principles and the IOI letter of support.
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2020-07-30
AORC Webinar on English and French report writing skills
The African Omudsman Research Centre (AORC) will host a webinar on "Report writing skills" on Friday, 14 August 2020.
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2020-03-27
CoE Commissioner calls for release of immigration detainees while Covid-19 crisis continues
Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), called on all CoE member states to review the situation of rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants in immigration detention, and to release them to the maximum extent possible.
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2020-09-16
How’s your Head? A guide to staying afloat post COVID-19
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office is proud to support “How’s your Head? A guide to staying afloat post COVID-19”, a mental health manual created by young people, for young people.
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2023-11-10
La síndica denuncia que la Iglesia todavía no ha asumido la responsabilidad institucional que le corresponde ante los abusos sexuales
El 6 de noviembre de 2023, la síndica de greuges de Cataluña, Esther Giménez-Salinas, y la adjunta de infancia, Aida C. Rodríguez, comparecieron en el Parlamento ante la Comisión de Investigación sobre la Pederastia en la Iglesia.
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2023-03-31Ombudsman of Thailand - Yala Painting Archaeological Site - EN
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2019-12-11
APT workshop - torture prevention makes headways in Panama
In a week of events in Panama City, torture prevention was at the centre of the agenda, under the aegis of the National Mechanism to prevent torture. Authorities, civil society organisations and others discussed the necessity to prevent torture, particularly when targeting the most vulnerable sectors of the society.
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2020-04-29
12th IOI World Conference - May 2021
We are pleased to announce that a new date has been agreed for the 12th IOI World Conference and General Assembly. The conference will now take place from 23 - 28 May 2021.
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2019-11-07
Policy fully accepted Ombudsman´s recommendations on arrestees´ rights
The draft decision of the Armenian Government on making changes in the internal regulation of places for keeping arrestees in the RA Police system was submitted for the opinion of the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia. The study of the project indicates that it fully reflects the recommendations made by the Ombudsman.
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2023-03-29
Seoul Metropolitan Government Citizens' Ombudsman Commission - Annual Report 2022 - EN
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2020-05-22
BC Ombudsperson releases first report under Public Interest Disclosure Act
Since BC’s new whistleblowing protection law came into effect in December 2019, current and former provincial government employees have been coming to the Ombudsperson with enquiries, seeking advice, or making disclosures, according to the office’s first public interest disclosure annual report.
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2023-07-26
Letter to Prime Minister - 09/11/2021 - EN
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2019-12-02
Ombudsman conferred Compliance Predicate to ministries and local governments
On 27 November 2019, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia conferred the High Compliance Predicate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Religion, the Provincial Government of Jambi, the Provincial Government of Southeast Sulawesi and also 12 City Governments and 71 District Governments.
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2023-03-27
Seoul Metropolitan Government Citizens' Ombudsman Commission - Annual Report 2022 - EN