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2011-11-18Tender for I.O.I. regional subsidies 2012
In its efforts to further increase the regional visibility of the I.O.I., the I.O.I. Board of Directors decided at its Zambia meeting in November 2011 to make once again regional subsidies available to its members.
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2011-11-18Subventions régionales de l’I.I.O. en 2011/2012
Dans le but d’augmenter la visibilité de l’I.I.O. dans ses régions, le Conseil d’administration a décidé, lors de sa réunion en Zambie en novembre 2011, de mettre des subventions régionales à la disposition de ses membres. Cette décision a été prise suite au premier cycle de subventions régionales très bien accueillies en 2010/2011.
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2011-11-16Ombudsman of Ontario received two prestigious academic awards
The I.O.I. congratulates the incumbent of its Ontario member institution, Ombudsman André Marin, for being chosen as the recipient of two distinguished awards recently.
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2011-11-15Ombudsman criticises shortcomings in age assessment practices
Spain Acting Ombudsman, Mª Luisa Cava de Llano presented the report “Children or adults? Age assessment practices”, gathering the deficiencies encountered during these procedures.
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2011-11-14New Board member
The North American Region of the I.O.I. therefore held elections during its meeting in Florida (USA), held in October 2011 and welcomed Hawaii State Ombudsman, Mr Robin Matsunaga as a newly elected Director to the I.O.I. Board.
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2011-11-14Organizational Chart: I.O.I. Board of Directors
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2011-11-14Press Release: Cabinet of the Portuguese Ombudsman
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2011-11-12English version of Annual Report 2010 available
The annual Report 2010 of Portuguese Ombudsman Alfredo José de Sousa was delivered to the President of the Parliament on 6th July 2011 and is now available in English.
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2011-11-09Revista mensual de octubre 2011
El Defensor del Pueblo ha publicado su revista mensual de octubre 2011.
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2011-11-03New Alberta Ombudsman sworn in
On October 18, 2011, Peter Hourihan was sworn in as Alberta’s eighth Ombudsman. Over the course of his 35 year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Mr. Hourihan worked in a variety of policing roles, most recently serving as the Commanding Officer for the RCMP in British Columbia, responsible for federal, provincial and municipal police operations.
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2011-10-27Argentinian General Defender visits the Austrian Ombudsman Board
On October 19th 2011, the Austrian Ombudsman Board was visited by a delegation of the Argentinian General Defender institution (Defensoría del Pueblo de la Nación Argentina).
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2011-10-21Commonwealth Ombudsman Allan Asher resigns
Commonwealth Ombudsman Allan Asher recently submitted his resignation to the Governor-General. His resignation will take effect at close of business on Friday, 28 October 2011.
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2011-10-21Annual Board Meeting in Livingstone, Zambia
The annual meeting of the I.O.I. Board of Directors will be held in Livingstone, Zambia from 30 October to 2 November 2011. The members of the I.O.I. Board will look back at the progress made and the projects realized during the past membership year and will identify and prioritize projects and activities in the new membership year 2011 / 2012.
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2011-10-20Organizational Chart: I.O.I. Board of Directors
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2011-10-20Organizational Chart: I.O.I. Board of Directors
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2011-10-17Speech of Ombudsman de Sousa (only available in French)
(only available in French)
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2011-10-14New President of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal
Following the partial renewal of the Members of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal, Mr Sean Van Raepenbusch, who has been a judge at the Tribunal since 6 October 2005, was elected President of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal for the period from 7 October 2011 to 30 September 2014.
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2011-10-14Ombudsman on the UN ombudsman resolution
The Portuguese Ombudsman, Alfredo José de Sousa, participated in Geneva in a round table organized by the Ombudsman of Morocco on the margins of the 18th session of the Human Rights Council, on the topic of the implementation of United Nations Resolution 65/207.
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2011-10-09I.O.I. training survey
The I.O.I. Board decided in 2009 to focus on training activities which will help both to maintain and raise the level of professionalism in Ombudsman offices around the world. In order to identify the specific training the I.O.I. General Secretariat has sent all member institutions a questionnaire that should help identifying their individual training needs. Based on recommendations by the Training Committee the Board will discuss and decide on future regional training activities.
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2011-10-07New Director on the I.O.I. Board
A long-standing and valuable member from the African Region left the I.O.I. Board of Directors when Ms Amina Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso) retired from her office as Médiateur du Faso in June 2011. Following a regional I.O.I. meeting Ms Traore, the new Ombudsman in Burkina Faso will fill the vacant position of an African Director on the Board.