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2018-04-27South Korean Gender Equality and Family Committee delegation visits Control Yuan
A delegation of the South Korean National Assembly's Committee for Gender Equality and Family visited the Control Yuan on March 30. The two sides engaged in open and friendly exchanges of views on a range of topics, including women’s political participation as well as the supervision of government. The visiting dignitaries praised the Control Yuan’s balanced gender ratio after President Chang explained that 14 of the CY’s 29 members, half of its directors and more than half of its employees are female.
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2018-04-27Investigación sobre el cumplimiento de las recomendaciones de la CNDH en el tema de niñas, niños y adolescents
La Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México presentó la investigación Estudios sobre el cumplimiento e impacto de las recomendaciones generales, informes especiales y pronunciamientos de la CNDH 2001-2017, Tomo I - Niñas, niños y adolescentes. Este estudio tiene como objetivo generar un diagnóstico sobre los alcances y el grado de cumplimiento de los Instrumentos de Posicionamiento emitidos por la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH) en el tema de niñas, niños y adolescentes.
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2018-11-07Participants at the Poldershop
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2018-04-26AOMA presents 9th edition of African Ombudsman Today
The African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA) published the 9th edition of the AOMAS Newsletter "African Ombudsman Today". It introduces Ombudsmen and their institutions in Africa and reports on recent events. Additionally, it also contains an update on the progress made on the Africa Ombudsman Study which is a collaboration between the IOI and AORC.
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2018-04-26Northern Ireland Ombudsman publishes first Quartery Bulletin
Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman publishes its first Quarterly Bulletin, which aims to provide readers with a short, easy-to-read summary of news from the Office, drawing attention to the most recent investigation reports, providing updates on new initiatives, and highlighting other aspects of the Ombudsman’s work.
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2018-11-06australia igt andrew-mcloughlin acting nov-2018
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2018-04-25Research article on Public Sector Ombudsman in greater China
Stephen Thomson, Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong wrote an article on “The Public Sector Ombudsman in Greater China: Four ‘Chinese’ Models of Administrative Supervision”, which was published in the Journal of International Law of Penn Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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2018-04-24Ombudsman's annual report will be heard at the Milli Mejlis
The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan submitted her 2017 Annual Report to the state authorities, namely the country President, Parliament, Cabinet of Ministers, and Constitutional as well as Supreme Court and to the Prosecutor General in conformity with Article 14 of the Constitutional Law on Ombudsman.
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2018-04-24Victorian Ombudsman tabled report into Wodonga City Council’s overcharged waste management levy
Wodonga Council collected at least $18 million in extra revenue from its waste management levy over the past decade, using the surplus to fund other council services, the Ombudsman has found. Tabling her Investigation into Wodonga City Council’s overcharging of a waste management levy in the Victorian Parliament today, Ombudsman Deborah Glass said about 70 per cent of the revenue raised through the charge had been spent on waste-related services. Nearly a third had been spent on other council services, such as the maintenance of parks, gardens and other council activities.
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2018-07-30Special Report by the Australian Commonwealth Ombudsman
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2018-04-23Irish Ombudsman welcomes progress on implementing Magdalen report recommendations
IOI President and Irish Ombudsman Peter Tyndall welcomed the Minister for Justice and Equality’s announcement that it will move forward on implementing the recommendations following the investigation into how the Department of Justice and Equality administered the Magdalen Restorative Justice scheme. The report of his investigation, Opportunity Lost, was critical of how the Department administered the scheme, including how some women who worked in the Magdalen laundries have been wrongly refused access to the scheme.
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2017-01-04Combating discrimination, its prevention and the situation of equality in the country (2015) - EN
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2016-08-10Commissioner for Fundamental Rights - Annual Report 2011 EN
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2018-07-26British Columbia Ombudsperson - Annual Report 2017/2018
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2018-04-19Ombudsman increasingly dealing with social security problems
The total number of complaints delivered in 2017 to the Ombudsman was 8,191. People increasingly turn to the Ombudsman's Office with their problems in the sphere of social security and also number of complaints concerning work and employment increased by 39 percent.
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2018-04-18PHSO strategy 2018-21: Delivering an exemplary ombudsman service
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) published the new three-year strategy. Central to this is the institution's goal to become an exemplary Ombudsman service. In developing this new strategic plan, it has received valuable input both from staff and a wide range of stakeholders.
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2018-04-18British Colombia Ombudsperson urges government to improve telephone service for income and disability assistance recipients
British Colombia’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released Special Report No. 40, Holding Pattern: Call Wait Times for Income and Disability Assistance on April 17, 2018. Holding Pattern is the report of the Ombudsperson’s systemic investigation into the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction’s centralized telephone system and its impact on the applicants and recipients of income and disability assistance.
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2018-04-17Declaración institucional del Parlamento Vasco a favor de los Defensores de los Derechos Humanos
La Comisión de Derechos Humanos e Igualdad del Parlamento Vasco aprobó, recientemente, una declaración institucional a favor de los defensores y defensoras de los derechos humanos con motivo de la celebración, este año, del 70 aniversario de la aprobación, por las Naciones Unidas, de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos.
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2018-04-17Kela’s changed policy regarding basic social assistance has endangered the continuity
Numerous complaints have been submitted to the Parliamentary Ombudsman criticising the social security institution Kela for refusing to grant basic social assistance for medication prescribed by doctors, or other health care expenses since it changed its policy concerning the granting of basic social assistance for health care exprenses in autumn of 2017.
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2018-04-17Ombudsman Hong Kong announces results of two direct investigations and one full investigation
The Ombudsman, Ms Connie Lau, held a press conference on April 17 to announce the results of two direct investigations, namely “Water Supplies Department’s Maintenance of Government Water Mains and Risk Management” and “Government Departments’ Handling of the Problem of Air-conditioner Dripping”.