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2025-06-182024 Annual Report available in English - including article on the Children’s Division’s talks with children during monitoring visits
In the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Annual Report, which has just been published in English, one of the articles is about how the Children’s Division conducts interviews with vulnerable children and young people in connection with monitoring visits. Including particularly how to build an informal and safe setting for a talk with a child or young person you have not met before.
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2025-03-21
Office of the Ombudsman urges women politicians to report injustices
The Office of the Ombudsman has asked women running in the September 2025 General Elections to report any forms of injustices faced in the election process. The Director of Investigations and Research, Ms Martha Kwengwere, said this during a two-day capacity building training aimed at empowering female aspirants for the positions of Member of Parliament and Ward Councilors from the Central Region at Sunbird Capital Hotel, Lilongwe.
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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.
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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.
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2024-11-15
The Ombudsman: trusted, credible
Kindly click here to read an opinion piece published by Parliamentary Ombudsman Joseph Zammit McKeon in The Times on 11 November 2024.
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2025-06-12Ombudsman announces full investigation into procedures and mechanisms in providing assistive device loan service to the public
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2025-02-13
Rome hosts celebrations for the 45th anniversary of the Lazio Region Civic Defender: participants to be received by Pope Francis
On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Lazio Region Civic Defender, a major international event will be held in Rome, organized by Marino Fardelli, President of the Italian Civic Defenders, Civic Defender of the Lazio Region, and member of the European Board of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI). Adding further prestige to the initiative will be the general audience with Pope Francis on the morning of April 9, during which participants will be welcomed by the Holy Father.
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2024-09-25
Visit of the Venice Commission in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
On 13 September 2024, Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights Wojciech Brzozowski spoke with representatives of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) at the CHR Office. The main topic of conversation was a draft law separating the positions of the Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor General.
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2024-12-20
The Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman hosts a fruitful roundtable event to mark the publication of its special report on public service
On 27.11.2024, the Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel hosted a highly successful roundtable event to mark the publication of its special report on the topic of public service in public bodies. The report was tabled with the Israeli parliament (Knesset) on 26.11.2024.
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2024-09-12
The Ombudsman presents the Ombudsplan 2025 to Parliament
Pursuant to Section 10(4) of the Ombudsman Act 1995, the Ombudsman, Judge Emeritus Joseph Zammit McKeon, has submitted the Ombudsplan 2025 to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Anġlu Farrugia. The Ombudsplan 2025 sets out the planned activities and initiatives that the Office of the Ombudsman aims to undertake in the coming year. It also provides Parliament with an update on the concerns raised in the previous year’s Ombudsplan.
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2024-10-02
Webinar on Promoting the Role of the Ombudsman: Increasing Awareness and Recognition of the Institution's Importance
Join the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC), the research and training arm of the African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA) for the thought-provoking webinar on "Promoting the Role of the Ombudsman: Increasing Awareness and Recognition of the Institution's Importance" on Tuesday, 8 October 2024, at 10 am (GMT+2), organised in collaboration with the International Ombudsman Institute.
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2024-10-10
The Ombudsman resigns in order to become judge with the Court of Justice of the European Union
On 2 October 2024, the governments of the EU Member States appointed the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman as judge to the Court of Justice of the European Union. He will be sworn in and take office on 7 October 2024. For the same reason, Niels Fenger resigns as Ombudsman, with effect from the same day.
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2025-05-23
Reflection on the challenges and advances of Ombudsman in Africa and Latin America during 20 years anniversary conference
Reflection on the Challenges and Advances of Ombudsman in Africa and Latin America marked the second day of the Central Act celebrating the 20th anniversary of the election of Angola's First Ombudsman. The day was essentially reserved for the International Conference, with the central theme "The Ombudsman: Advances and Challenges".
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2024-11-15
Public Protector addresses final year law students at the University of the Witwatersrand
Public Protector Adv. Kholeka Gcaleka recently addressed final year law students at the University of the Witwatersrand. Kindly click here to read Adv. Gcaleka’s speech.
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2025-01-17
Outreach initiatives of the Ombudsman Office in 2024
Kindly click here to read about the outreach initiatives by the Office of the Ombudsman Tonga to different islands of the Kingdom.
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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.
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2024-11-15
Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and Deputy Commissioner for the Rights of National Minorities Attend the Meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Nationalities
On 29 October 2024, Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, and Dr. Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay, Deputy Commissioner for the Rights of National Minorities in Hungary, attended the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Nationalities in Hungary. The session focused on Report no. B/7848 on the activities of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary and his deputies in 2023.
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2024-09-05
Re-watch the webinar "Celebrating Women's Month - Ensuring Gender Equity: The Role of the Ombudsman"
On 27 August 2024, the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC), in collaboration with the IOI, held a webinar to discuss and understand the crucial role Ombudsman institutions play in addressing gender bias and discrimination within organizations.
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2025-01-24
Inclusion and accessibility are in the spotlight as the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales publishes a new thematic report, ‘Equality Matters.’
Drawing on a review of the Ombudsman’s cases closed between April 2023 and September 2024, the report sheds light on recurring themes related to the difficulties people have faced in accessing public services in Wales.
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2024-10-17
Ombudsman celebrates 50 years with conference on the role of the Ombudsman in the defence of democracy and fundamental rights
On September 27, the Palácio de Vilalva in Lisbon hosted the conference “Five Decades of Freedom and Justice: Celebrating 50 Years of the Ombudsman and April 25”. The event, organized by the Ombudsman’s Office, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of this institution in Portugal.
