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• 2025-01-09

  Equality and Non-discrimination Transcend Borders as “Color Our Rights” Promotes Human Rights Through Poster Design

  The Control Yuan National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) held the awards ceremony for the “Color Our Rights: 2024 Human Rights Poster Design Competition” on 8 December 2024.

• 2024-10-03

  Consentement aux soins : essentiel, même quand la personne est hospitalisée contre son gré

  Un citoyen porte plainte contre un hôpital où on lui a donné des soins sans son accord. À la demande du Protecteur du citoyen, une règle importante a été rappelée au personnel et aux gestionnaires concernés. Avant d’offrir des soins non urgents à une personne, il faut obtenir son consentement libre et éclairé.

• 2024-11-07

  Re-watch webinar on Ombuds Day 2024

  On 8 October 2024, the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC), in collaboration with the IOI, held a webinar in celebration of the Ombuds Day 2024 under the theme "Ombuds: Here to Hear". In case you missed the Ombuds Day 2024 webinar or wish to revisit it, you can access the recording of the webinar on YouTube.

• 2024-12-19

  Toronto Ombudsman Report Finds City’s Decision to Exclude Refugees from Base Shelter Beds was Unfair and Harmful

  A new report from Toronto’s Ombudsman Kwame Addo finds that the City of Toronto’s decision to stop allowing refugee claimants access to its base shelter beds was unfair, poorly planned, and inconsistent with its commitments to transparency, accountability, and the human right to adequate housing.

• 2024-12-19

  The Ombudsman has investigated transport of inmates in the Prison and Probation Service

  The Ombudsman’s monitoring visits to institutions for adults in 2023 focused particularly on the Prison and Probation Service’s transport of inmates to court appearances, outpatient treatment and in connection with transfer of inmates from one Prison and Probation Service institution to another.

• 2024-11-07

  NSW Ombudsman’s Review of the DCJ Complaint System in respect of its Aboriginal Child Protection functions, tabled in Parliament

  The NSW Ombudsman’s report - Review of the DCJ Complaint System in respect of its Aboriginal Child Protection functions, was tabled in Parliament on 6 November. The report follows a comprehensive review of the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) system for handing complaints from, or involving, Aboriginal families in the child protection system. The review focused on understanding DCJ’s complaint handling system, the foundational elements underpinning it and how well it is operating in practice.

• 2024-12-19

  Chief Ombudsman calls for Corrections to stop the way it is running Prisoners of Extreme Risk Unit

  The Chief Ombudsman says the Department of Corrections must stop the way it’s running the Prisoners of Extreme Risk Unit (PERU) because the unit’s prisoners are being ill-treated. Peter Boshier has released a report that outlines serious concerns about human rights abuses at the unit which is based at Auckland Prison.

• 2024-10-31

  OCI’s Latest Annual Report Issues Groundbreaking Investigations into the Experiences of Maximum-Security and Life-Sentenced Prisoners in Canada

  The 2023-24 Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) was tabled in Parliament on October 29, 2024. The Office’s latest Annual Report breaks new ground in two national-level investigations examining conditions of confinement in male stand-alone maximum-security penitentiaries and on the experience of persons serving a life (or indeterminate) sentence in Canada, a sentence that has no end date.

• 2024-12-13

  Oversight of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 Annual Report 2023–24, tabled in Parliament

  The NSW Ombudsman tabled the Oversight of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 Annual Report 2023–24 in Parliament on 11 December, 2024.  The report provides a snapshot of voluntary public interest disclosures made between 1 October 2023, when the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 (PID Act) commenced, and 30 June 2024.  

• 2024-12-13

  The Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman presents a special report on the subject of public service in public bodies

  On 26.11.2024, the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel Matanyahu Englman presented to the Israeli parliament (Knesset) a special report on the subject of public service provided by public bodies in Israel.

• 2024-12-13

  The Ombudsman’s Children’s Division has examined conditions for children and young people in the psychiatric sector

  In 2023, the Ombudsman’s Children’s Division focused on children and young people in the psychiatric sector by means of a number of monitoring visits. This focus area was chosen because children and young people with a psychiatric diagnosis can be in a particularly vulnerable situation. This is especially true for children and young people who need to be hospitalised in the psychiatric sector.

• 2024-10-25

  Ombudsman challenges public offices on ethics

  Ombudsman Grace Tikambenji Malera has challenged Public Officers in the country to exercise their duties and functions in a proper, fair, just, reasonable and lawful manner; further to accounting for their decisions or actions. Malera made the call in a presentation she made during a webinar organized by the University of Malawi (Unima).

• 2024-12-12

  European Ombudsman makes suggestions to help ensure accountability in Commission’s use of AI

  The European Ombudsman has made a series of suggestions to help the European Commission ensure the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its decision making remains accountable.

• 2024-12-12

  Global Report on Women in Prison - Analysis from National Preventive Mechanisms

  National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) from 46 countries contributed to the development of a global report on women in prison, launched on 12 December 2024 by the Geneva-based Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT). The report highlights significant challenges and systemic discrimination faced by women in prisons around the globe, calling for urgent reforms and greater use of alternatives to detention.

• 2024-10-25

  Urgent need for review of special needs youth placement in adult facilities per CRC

  Based on Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) data, the number of children with developmental, physical, or mental disabilities placed outside their families rose to 1,243 in 2023. Of these, 176 cases (15%) were housed in adult care facilities, which have been unable to meet the children's social adaptation and peer interaction needs, thus failing to adhere to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

• 2024-12-06

  DPU Advocates for Women Victims of Domestic Violence Accused of International Child Abduction

  On Wednesday, 13 November, at the National Congress, the Federal Public Defenders’ Office (DPU) called for greater recognition of the plight of women who, as victims of domestic violence, are accused of international child abduction. Federal Public Defender Daniela Brauner participated in two public hearings held at the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, addressing the application of the Hague Convention in cases where Brazilian mothers return to Brazil with their children after fleeing domestic violence.

• 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.

• 2024-11-22

  Ethiopian Ombudsman Institution and its challenges

  Kindly click here to read an informational article submitted by the Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (EIO) about its mandate, work and current challenges.

• 2024-11-27

  Rapport annuel sur les droits de l'enfant 2024 - Le droit des enfants à un environnement sain : protéger l’enfance, préserver l’avenir

  Le rapport annuel 2024 relatif aux droits des enfants du Défenseur des droits est consacré au droit à un environnement sain. En s’appuyant sur des situations portées à la connaissance de l’institution, d’auditions d’experts et d’une consultation nationale menée auprès de 3 400 enfants, ce rapport est consacré cette année à l’impact de la dégradation environnementale sur les droits des enfants.

• 2024-11-22

  The Office of the Ombudsman and the Business Community

  Kindly click here to read an article by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Mr Joseph Zammit McKeon, which was published in the "Movers and Shakers 2024". 

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