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2013-12-03Acting Public Services Ombudsman for Wales appointed
In light of Peter Tyndall’s departure to take up the post of Irish Ombudsman and Information Commissioner, the National Assembly for Wales has appointed Professor Margaret Griffiths as Acting Public Services Ombudsman for Wales. The National Assembly for Wales will now conduct a full and open recruitment process to appoint a permanent successor to Peter Tyndall.
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2013-12-03
El Defensor del Pueblo firmará un acuerdo de colaboración con el Cudaio
En coincidencia con el Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, la Defensoría del Pueblo de la provincia de Santa Fe y el Centro Único de Ablación e Implante de Órganos (Cudaio) firmarán mañana martes 3 diciembre a las 12 horas, en la ciudad de Rosario, un acuerdo de colaboración que posibilitará que la Defensoría implemente “una campaña permanente de difusión y concientización de la ciudadanía en el tema de la donación y procuración de órganos para trasplante”.
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2013-12-03
FRA launches fundamental rights-based police training manual
On 3 December 2013, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents its fundamental rights-based police training manual at the International Conference on Human Rights Education and Training for the Civil and Public Service in Dublin, Ireland. This training manual seeks to help foster a relationship of trust between police and society as a whole by integrating human rights considerations into police training.
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2013-12-03
Payment of service dues to widow of Government employee
Irrigation & Power Department, Government of Sindh, paid service dues to widow of a government employee on the orders of Mr Asad Ashraf Malik, Provincial Ombudsman Sindh (Pakistan).
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2013-12-03Canada - Correctional Investigator - Annual Report 2008/2009 - EN
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2013-11-29
Québec Ombudsperson elected President of AOMF
This week, Québec Ombudsperson, Ms Raymonde Saint-Germain, was elected President of the Association des Médiateurs et Ombudsmans de la Francophonie (AOMF) for a two-year term.
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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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2013-11-27
Kosovo - Annual Report 2011 EN - Summary
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2013-11-26
Commissioner on social care workers’ wage system
In the recent months the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights has received several complaints concerning the wage system of social care workers. The complaints referred to the fact that, as far as remuneration is concerned, social care workers are not treated in the same way as those working in the healthcare system and licenced by the Office of Health Authorisation and Administrative Procedures.
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2013-11-26
Secretary General participated in workshop on effective parliamentary oversight of human rights
IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter attended a workshop on effective parliamentary oversight of human rights, which was held by the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London from 13 to 14 November 2013.
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2013-11-22
Renewed efforts needed to safeguard child rights
Many children across the EU continue to suffer from poverty, discrimination or violence, despite EU and national efforts. As EU bodies prepare for a new Commission and Parliamentary elections, FRA reminds future EU policy makers of the need for child rights to remain on their political agendas.
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2013-11-20
Media Release Nkandla Provisional Report
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2013-11-19
Open meetings notice time disputed
The question of what constitutes a 24-hour notice to the public under Iowa’s open-meetings law became an issue of contention a few days ago. Ombudsman Ruth Cooperrider warned that the Iowa Public Information Board’s ruling opens the door for Iowa governments to elude the requirements of the law, whose intention it is that the information must be easily accessible to the public for at least 24 hours before meetings are held.
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2013-11-19
iowa news articles
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2013-11-18
Memorandum of Understanding between AOMA and IOI - POR
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2013-11-14
Ombudsman issues reprimands to doctors for operating on patient against her will
Parliamentary Ombudsman Petri Jääskeläinen has issued reprimands to two doctors at a central hospital as well as to a hospital district for an unlawful action. In addition, he has recommended that the hospital district make recompense to the patient for the violations of her fundamental and human rights to which she was subjected.
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2013-11-14
Gibraltar - Public Services Ombudsman - Annual Report 2008 EN
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2013-11-12
“Ombudsman and Legislation in Canada” book review
The Citizens’ Representative for Newfoundland and Labrador, Barry Fleming, conducted a review of the new book of Gregory Levine on “Ombudsman and Legislation in Canada: An Annotation and Appraisal”.
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2013-11-12
“Ombudsman and Legislation in Canada: An Annotation and Appraisal”; book review by Barry Fleming, Citizens’ Representative for Newfoundland and Labrador
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2013-11-11
Consultation on new Masters programme
Queen Margaret University (QMU) is consulting ombudsman organisations on a new Masters programme in dispute resolution. QMU has been running ombudsman and complaint handling training programmes for a number of years and is now seeking to further develop provision for dispute resolvers.