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2015-07-23Local Government Ombudsman Annual Report and Accounts 2014/15 published
The report, entitled Quality Counts, explains how the LGO exceeded its performance targets and improved quality standards, while continuing to reduce its operating costs.
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2015-07-23
Residential facilities providing care without authorisation
The office of the Ombudsman published its 2015 report on systematic visits carried out by the public defender of rights. This report list the risks (ill-treatment of clients) posed by facilities providing care without authorisation (the “unregistered residential social services facilities”) and explain why good co-operation among all governmental authorities is necessary to penalise these facilities.
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2015-08-07Síndic de Greuges de Catalunya - Informe Anual 2014 - ES
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2015-07-16
New Complaints Commissioner appointed
Mrs Sheila Brathwaite is the newly appointed Complaints Commissioner of the Virgin Islands. Mrs. Brathwaite replaces the Territory's first Complaints Commissioner, former Deputy Governor Mr. Elton Georges, who served for some six years.
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2021-05-14
COVID-19: nuevo reporte estadístico de la PPN de 10 de mayo de 2021
La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación presenta un nuevo reporte estadístico a abril de 2021 sobre la situación de las personas privadas de la libertad ante la actual emergencia sanitaria.
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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
El ILO insta a los gobiernos del continente americano a priorizar la salud pública y los derechos humanos en sus decisiones y políticas públicas respecto de la vacunación contra el COVID-19
Desde el ILO se considera necesario alertar respecto de la necesidad de garantizar el acceso a la vacunación en condiciones trasparentes, respetando el principio de igualdad y no discriminación para todas y todos los habitantes como estrategia para superar la pandemia del COVID-19 en todo el mundo.
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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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2021-05-14
IOI and others - Joint statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights - PL
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2021-05-14
IOI and others - Joint statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights - EN
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2015-07-13
El Valedor pide a los poderes públicos que visibilicen a los menores como víctimas de la violencia de género
El Valedor do Pobo firmó en Vitoria una declaración institucional en relación á “execrable” vulneración de los derechos humanos que, aún hoy, constituye la violencia de género. Esta comunicación, en la que se incide en especial en la necesidad de que los poderes públicos atiendan las necesidades de los menores que son víctimas de la violencia de género, es consecuencia de un encuentro de trabajo celebrado en Vitoria por parte de la región europea de la Red de Mujeres de la Federación Iberoamericana de Ombudsman (FIO) de la que forma parte a institución gallega.
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2015-07-06
FRA presents report on achievements 2014
The annual report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) for 2014 examines fundamental rights-related developments in equality and non-discrimination; racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; Roma integration; asylum, borders, immigration and integration; information society, privacy and data protection; the rights of the child; access to justice including rights of crime victims; and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its use by Member States. The report is available online in English and French.
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2015-07-03
HIQA and Ombudsman agreement will benefit the public and health services
On 2 July 2015, the Chief Executive of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), Phelim Quinn, and Ombudsman Peter Tyndall signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of the Authority and the Office of the Ombudsman.
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2015-07-01
Ombudsman Hong Kong holds seminar on private building management
The Office of The Ombudsman held a seminar entitled "Private Building Management" June 25. Around 60 Justices of the Peace ("JPs") and Advisers of the Office attended the seminar and exchanged views with the guest speaker and other participants regarding the Government's policy on private building management, its role and support services provided to property owners, and several new measures and schemes being implemented.
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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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2021-05-06
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
Yuan de Control solicitó revisión de las infracciones de vehículos con sobrecarga que circulan por carreteras nacionales, un problema no resuelto
El Yuan de Control declaró sobre la sobrecarga ilegal de vehículos pesados que circulan por las autopistas y las zonas de pesaje que no cuentan con presencia de la Policía, por lo que no se prohíbe el tránsito de estos.
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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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2015-06-26
First IOI NPM Training on „Implementing a Preventive Mandate“ successfully held in Riga, Latvia
IOI Secretary General, Günther Kräuter, opened the first IOI Training specifically designed for Ombudsman Institutions functioning as National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). The 2,5-day learning experience was hosted by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia.
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2021-05-05
Una de cada cuatro solicitudes de actuación ante el Defensor del Pueblo andaluz en 2020 estuvo relacionada con la COVID-19
Este impacto de la pandemia en las actuaciones del Defensor del Pueblo andaluz lo ha destacado hoy el titular de la institución, Jesús Maeztu, en la presentación del Informe Anual 2020 ante la Comisión de Nombramientos, Relaciones con el Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz y Peticiones celebrada en el Parlamento andaluz.