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2024-08-08Everything set for the II Italian Edition of the International Ombudsman Conference to be held in Cassino on September 11-13, 2024
The II Italian Edition of the International Ombudsman Conference will take place in Cassino, Italy, from 11-13 September 2024. This globally significant event has attracted an impressive participation, with 268 delegates registered from around the world.
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2024-08-08
Riesgos para los DD. HH. en la era de la IA, Chen Chu: “Enfrentar con valentía los desafíos de los DD. HH. en la era de la IA”
En respuesta al acalorado debate sobre el desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y para reforzar la concienciación de las personas sobre la autoprotección y los derechos humanos en la era digital, la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (NHRC, por sus siglas en inglés) organizó el Foro de Tendencias IA x Derechos Humanos el 12 de julio de 2024.
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2024-08-01
Defensoría del Pueblo: baja ejecución presupuestal para mitigar efectos de heladas y friaje podría afectar a más de 824 mil personas
La Defensoría del Pueblo advierte que más de 824 mil personas en todo el territorio nacional podrían verse afectadas en su integridad y en sus medios de subsistencia, debido a la baja ejecución de los presupuestos que han sido destinados para mitigar los efectos de las heladas y friaje. En ese sentido, instó a los tres niveles de gobierno a intervenir de manera oportuna y eficiente en aquellas zonas en las que la población esté más expuesta a dichos fenómenos naturales.
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2024-08-01
The State Comptroller and Ombudsman presents Annual Report 50 to the Speaker of the Knesset
On 25 June 2024, "National Ombudsday", the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel Mr. Matanyahu Englman presented to the Speaker of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) Ombudsman Annual Report 50 for the year 2023.
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2024-08-01
Ombudsman challenges ISS position on unemployment benefit for victims of domestic violence
The Ombudsman’s Office has pleaded with the Social Security Institute (ISS) the right to unemployment benefits for victims of domestic violence who have terminated their employment contracts under the terms of the Decent Work Agenda Law, in force since May 2023. A different position is being adopted by the ISS, which only recognises this right in cases of termination after 1 December 2023.
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2024-08-01
Deputy Ombudsman opens training on the “Information and Technology Ecosystem in Timor-Leste”
Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights, Maria Marilia da Costa, opened a training session on the “Information and Technology Ecosystem in Timor-Leste,” organized by the Progressive Association of Information Technology Timor-Leste (ITP-TL). The event took place at the Fundação Oriente Hall in Dili.
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2024-08-01
The New Zealand office of the Ombudsman provided online training to the Thailand office
On June 19, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. local time. the Office of the Ombudsman of Thailand, in collaboration with the Office of the Ombudsman of New Zealand, organized an online training activity on the topic of “Complaints, including the intake and management of difficult complainants,” for the investigation and legal affairs officers.
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2024-07-31
First International Ombudsman Summit will be held in celebration of Office’s 35th Anniversary
2024 marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman in Hong Kong, China. To commemorate this important milestone, the Office will be hosting the first International Ombudsman Summit with the theme “Ombudsman in a Changing World: Learning from the Past; Preparing for the Future” on 3 December 2024 at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
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2024-07-31
DPU and partners promote the rights of flood victims in Rio Grande do Sul
The Federal Public Defenders' Office is offering assistance and guidance to individuals impacted by the floods in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), a state in southern Brazil, through the “Caravan of Rights for the Reconstruction of RS” project. Collaborating with other institutions, the DPU seeks a wide range of out-of-court solutions.
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2024-07-31
NSW Ombudsman’s Casebook July 2024: Investigations and complaint-handling case studies
The NSW Ombudsman’s Casebook July 2024: Investigations and complaint-handling case studies has been tabled in Parliament on 30 July 2024. The NSW Ombudsman holds agencies to account for the services they provide to the people of NSW, achieving positive outcomes for the complainants. Casebook July 2024 is the first of what will be biannual reports featuring case studies illustrating how the NSW Ombudsman achieves those outcomes.
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2024-07-26
Belgrade Platform for Promotion and Protection of the Environment
The Belgrade Platform for Promotion and Protection of the Environment was established following the International Conference on the Role of Ombudspersons in Environmental Protection held on 13 and 14 June 2024 in Belgrade, organized by the Protector of Citizens of the Republic of Serbia, supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia.
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2024-07-26
Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Hosts European Commission Experts
The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary hosted the experts of the European Commission monitoring the management of the external Schengen borders of the EU in his Office on 4 June 2024.
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2024-07-26
Review of housing register applications following Ombudsman investigation
London Borough of Tower Hamlets has agreed to review the way it allocates properties after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman uncovered it had a long backlog in processing applications to join its housing register. The discovery came when the Ombudsman investigated how the council handled an application from a woman who was resident in its area.
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2024-07-26
Ombudsman regrets Commission approach to access to documents request concerning EU legislation on combatting child sexual abuse
The European Ombudsman strongly regrets the European Commission’s refusal to follow her recommendation to give greater public access to four documents related to the drawing up of proposed legislation to combat child sexual abuse.
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2024-07-26
Ombudsman publishes 2023 Year Report
The Ombudsman of Sint Maarten recently published the 2023-year report. In 2023 there were a total of 367 complaints handled of which 43 resulted in a report by the Ombudsman.
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2024-07-26
Necesarias políticas específicas para garantizar el ejercicio de los derechos de las Mujeres Afrodescendientes
La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México (CDHCM) hace eco de las líneas estratégicas signadas en el Decenio Internacional de los Afrodescendientes (Reconocimiento, Justicia y Desarrollo); y el énfasis que se pone en que estas deben contemplar específicamente líneas para las mujeres.
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2024-07-25
Office of the Ombudsman embarks on mobile accountability clinics
The Office of the Ombudsman in Malawi has taken to Kasungu for two-week Mobile Accountability Clinics. The clinics are a proactive mechanism that the Office of the Ombudsman uses to take the Office to the people reaching the heart of communities in the rural areas or areas that are far from the main office.
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2024-07-25
Signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership between the Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior and the Institution of the Mediator of the Kingdom of Morocco
The Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Bahrain signed a memorandum of cooperation and partnership with the Mediator of the Kingdom of Morocco, on the sidelines of the two institutions’ participation in the eleventh meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ombudsman Association of Member Countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which was held in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.
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2024-07-25
Ombudsman Sindh holds the follow-up session with 10 selected students of Hamdard University as Ambassadors for his institute
Muhammad Sohail Rajput, the Ombudsman Sindh, presided the follow-up session of the Brand Ambassador Program on 22 July 2024 at the Secretariat of the Provincial Ombudsman Sindh with the 10 selected students as Ambassadors for Ombudsman Sindh from the Hamdard University.
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2024-07-25
Eight years after committing to implement minimum international standards for prison inspections, British Columbia still has not done so
British Columbia’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released an investigative update on 22 July 2024 assessing government’s progress implementing the sole remaining recommendation from his office’s 2016 report aimed at improving how BC’s ten correctional centres are inspected.