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2023-06-09L to R: Chief of Staff to the IOI President, Rebecca Poole; IOI President, Chris Field PSM; President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Nataša Pirc Musar; Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, Peter Svetina.
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2023-06-09
L to R: Chief of Staff to the IOI President, Rebecca Poole; IOI President, Chris Field PSM; Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, Peter Svetina; President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Nataša Pirc Musar.
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2023-07-14
President of the National Assembly Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023 and Prime Minister of Thailand for two terms, Chuan Leekpai addressing conference delegates.
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2022-12-01
Guideline on challenges with monitoring the socio-economic rights by Georgian and Armenian Ombudsperson Institutions during the emergency situations prepared within the project (August 2022)
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2023-07-26
16. Theme III: Third-party interventions by independent public institutions before the European Court of Human Rights by Mr Paul Lemmens (Judge at the European Court of Human Rights)
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2023-03-09
Military Ombud meets with the Ombudsman of Malawi
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2023-12-07Tranquilisers instead of individual support: even such cases are encountered during the Defender’s visits to residential facilities for people with disabilities
The stories of two men with mental disabilities, recorded by employees of the Defender’s Office during their visits, illustrate a phenomenon, which has mostly been overlooked so far: some people with mental disabilities, especially those with challenging behaviour, receive high doses of tranquilisers. According to the Deputy Defender, this practice has to change. Behaviour is often the only possible form of communication for people who cannot otherwise make contact with others. It is therefore necessary that the latter understand the unmet needs behind the patient’s challenging behaviour and be able to respond accordingly. Tranquillisers must not be the first, let alone the only and permanent “solution”.
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2023-06-29
NSW Ombudsman publishes paper on the use of social media by public servants
The NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper looking at some ways of how the social media conduct of agencies and individual public servants could lead to concerns about possible misconduct or maladministration.
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2022-11-08
Protection of child victims of human trafficking is in the focus of the Protector of Citizens
The Deputy Protector of Citizens for Children's Rights, Jelena Stojanović, said today that this institution, in carrying out the tasks of the National Rapporteur in the field of trafficking in human beings, a new competence given by the new Law on the Protector of Citizens from November 2021, will pay special attention to child victims of trafficking in human beings.
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2022-09-19
President Field attends formal luncheon at the residence of the Australian Ambassador to Austria
Chris Field, President of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and Western Australian Ombudsman, attended a formal luncheon at the residence of Mr Richard Sadleir, Australian Ambassador to Austria and Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, in honour of his official visit to Austria.
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2022-08-26
Statement by the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada in response to the release of the 2021 Census data on language
Commissioner of Official Languages, Raymond Théberge, issued a statement on 17th August in response to Statistics Canada’s release of the 2021 Census data on language.
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2022-12-19
Ombudsman Florbela Araújo celebrates the 74th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, focusing on Vulnerable People
The Ombudsman of Angola celebrated on December 14, 2022, for the second consecutive year, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, institutionalized on December 10, 1948 by the United Nations, with a high-level event on "The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending the Rights of Citizens in Situations of Vulnerability".
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2023-11-07
64. Plenary Session VI: Mai Chen – A public law toolbox perspective on the Ombudsman’s role after 50 years
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2023-11-07
13. Working Session B: Dulcie McCallum – Becoming iterate in disability rights – an Ombudsman response to the paradigm shift
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2023-11-07
Announcement folder: Round table on the role of ombudsman offices in promoting good governance and effective service delivery
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2023-10-12
Ombudsman at the ENNHRI Jubilee Assembly on Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Climate Change as Challenges to Human Rights
Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina participated in the General Assembly and Conference of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) in Brussels. He participated as a speaker at a roundtable discussion about challenges in the field of human rights, primarily in the fields of digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and climate change.
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2023-05-19
IOI President, Chris Field PSM, and Minister Werner Amon at the opening night of Il Cappelo di paglia di Firenze in the Graz Opera House
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2023-09-21
Prisons in Brazil: Report points out Human Rights violations in the federal capital after anti-democratic attacks
The Federal Public Defenders' Office (DPU), the Federal District Public Defenders' Office (DPDF) and the National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture (MNPCT) published its report pointing out the human rights situation in Brazilian prisons after the arrest of people participating in anti-democratic attacks.
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2022-04-14
The National Ombudsman of the Netherlands - Caribbean children pay the price - Report summary - EN
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2022-06-22
Snapshot: Investigations into the use of force at the Metropolitan Remand Centre and the Melbourne Assessment Prison
