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2020-01-16OHCHR - Ombudsman Questionnaire (EN)
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2014-02-07Network News February 2014
The Pacific Ombudsman Alliance issued its latest Newsletter in February 2014. This edition includes reports on the Samoan Ombudsman’s successful launch of its human rights function, as well as news and updates regarding the POA’s activities in the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.
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2014-06-25
Public Services Ombudsman publishes Annual Report
Acting Ombudsman, Professor Margaret Griffiths, has published the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales’s Annual Report, which was laid before the National Assembly for Wales on 18 June 2014.
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2014-04-04
Commonwealth Ombudsman elected as new Regional President
On 1 April 2014, Mr Colin Neave was unanimously elected as the new Regional President of the IOI's Australasian and Pacific Region in the course of its Regional Board meeting, with immediate effect.
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2014-11-04
New Powers for Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
From 1 November 2014, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales’s jurisdiction changed. This is as a result of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. He now has an extended role in relation to care homes, domiciliary care and palliative care services.
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2015-05-27
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman welcomes government commitment to Public Service Ombudsman
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor welcomed the government’s commitment to a single public service ombudsman which will make it much simpler and easier for citizens to complain about public services in England.
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2013-05-03
Albania - Special report on floods in Shkodra (April 2013) EN
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2014-02-24
Occasional Paper #52
The protection of citizens as "consumers" of government services (1995) William Reid Mr Reid is the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administrative and Health Service Commissioner for the United Kingdom.
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2013-12-11
Ombudsman calls for better risk assessment of battered women
The Ombudsman, Soledad Becerril, participated in the day ‘Gender violence among teenagers: the new technologies as a tool’. There she called for the improvement of risk detection instruments for battered women, “so that the possibilities of attack are reduced”.
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2014-02-24
Occasional Paper #34
Press ombudsmen (1986) Sam Zagoria Mr Zagoria is the former Ombudsman for the Washington Post and a writer of some distinction. This is his first paper on the subject of Press Ombudsmen.
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2014-01-09
Ombudsman issues report on investigation into governance
On December 13 the Ombudsman for Bermuda, Arlene Brock, issued her report into governance generally at the CoH and the Waterfront Development in particular.
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2014-06-25
Ombudsman to investigate how public hospitals handle complaints
Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has today, 13 June 2014, announced an investigation into how complaints are handled by public hospitals in Ireland and has asked members of the public for their assistance. The Ombudsman’s wide ranging investigation will look at how public hospitals across the State manage and investigate complaints from patients and their families.
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2015-03-12
Ombudsman Stephenson re-appointed
Lynette Stephenson was re-appointed Ombudsman of Trinidad and Tobago on 19 February 2015 for a term of three years by the President of Trinidad and Tobago.
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2014-02-24
Occasional Paper #01
Special referral sections in ombudsman statutes (1979) Sir Guy Powles Sir Guy Powles compares the sections in ombudsman acts which permit the Legislature, Prime Minister, Ministers of Government and/or Attorney General to refer matters to the ombudsman for investigation. Sir Guy Powles is the former Ombudsman for New Zealand.
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2015-03-02
Man dies of blood clot following GPs failures
A man died because of a blood clot in a vein after two GPs in Yorkshire failed to adequately assess him, an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found.
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2015-04-01
Reminder for Anti-Corruption training in Curaçao
High Profile anti-corruption training programme will be held in Willemstad, Curaçao from 27 – 28 May 2015 during the 8th Biennial Conference of Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA).
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2014-01-03
Ontario Ombudsman’s top 10 stories of 2013
Voice of the vulnerable: the role of ombudsman has traditionally been to speak for those who cannot, to give ordinary citizens access to justice through independent, impartial investigations of government services. With the help of his social media followers, the office selected the Ombudsman’s top 10 stories of 2013.
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2014-06-26
Working group discusses IOI communication and publication strategy
The IOI Working Group consisting of communication experts from members’ offices met in Vienna on 16 and 17 June 2014 to evaluate the IOI’s existing communication infrastructure and publication policy.
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2013-11-29
Ombudsman’s recommendations on human trafficking accepted
The Ombudsman of Spain has updated the 2012 monographic report Human Trafficking in Spain, in order to know the status of recommendations made and 71 % of the recommendations included in the Ombudsman of Spain’s report on human trafficking have been accepted.
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2014-03-26
Report on “security” upgrades of president’s private residence released
In March 2014, the Public Protector published her report on her investigation into allegations of unlawful and unethical conduct with regard to the installation of security measures and related upgrades at the president's private residence at Nkandla.