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2024-03-14Bilateral discussion between the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights and the Romanian People’s Advocate
Dr. Ákos Kozma, Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, paid an official visit to Bucharest on 18 January 2024, where he had a meeting with the Romanian People’s Advocate, Ms. Renate Weber.
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2019-07-03
New IOI Secretary General appointed
On 1 July 2019 Werner Amon took office as new Austrian Ombudsman and was appointed Secretary General of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI).
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2017-04-04
Ombudsman and Ombudsman for Children can now investigate complaints from those in Direct Provision
From Monday 3 April the Ombudsman’s Office of Ireland will be accepting complaints from people living in Direct Provision, while complaints from children or on behalf of children, can be made to the Irish Ombudsman for Children’s Office. This is a change that has been long called for by both Offices and which will provide equal access to complaints procedures for people in Direct Provision.
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2020-05-19
Ombudsman is concerned about police intervention during protests at the National Theatre
The Ombudsman’s Office seizes the opportunity to repeatedly call for respect for the principle of proportionality in the interventions of the police and other law enforcement agencies, which in no case and in no way should use the pretext of Covid-19 restrictions (which, moreover, are not respected by themselves), as a reason for the suppression of civil law for peaceful assembly.
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2021-06-03
Comparative study about refugees
The comparative study about refugees in Europe, which was conducted by the Ombudsman offices of the Netherlands, Greece and the Basque country, was presented during the IOI World Conference on the topic of "Giving voice to the voiceless". The respective workshop was chaired by the Greek Ombudsman Andreas Pottakis.
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2021-01-25
Public Defender’s special statement on situation in penitentiary establishments
In 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia published a special report, in which she talked about the fact that the management model of semi-open establishments was based on informal hierarchy of prisoners, where the so-called "prison watchers" provide fictitious order, which aims to silence prisoners and prevent them from talking about their problems. The publication of this report was followed by public attacks on the Public Defender and illegal actions by the Minister of Justice and the Penitentiary Service. As a result, it has becomedangerous for the representatives of the Public Defender's Office to carry out visits and monitoring at the penitentiary establishments.
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2023-03-15Austria - Report on NPM activities 2021 - EN
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2020-02-28
Ombudsman’s representatives conducted monitoring of clinical hospital of the Armed Forces
The head of the sector for the Protection of the Rights of Military Servants of the Ombudsman Office, Fazail Hasanov and the Chief Advisor of this Sector, Adil Hajiyev visited jointly with the representative of the Ministry of Defense the main clinical hospital of the Armed Forces.
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2023-11-15
Ombudsman of the State of Iowa - Annual Report 2020 - EN
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2019-08-19
Workshop on General Data Protection Regulation to be held in Riga
The Office of the Ombudsman of Latvia will host an IOI workshop on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation from 16 – 17 October 2019 in Riga, Latvia. Registration is now open!
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2023-08-24
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2023-08-24
The People's Advocate - Special report on monitoring the rights of refugees - EN
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2019-01-31
Ombudsman Hong Kong published Brief Report 2018
The Ombudsman of Hong Kong, Ms Connie Lau, published the Office of The Ombudsman’s Brief Report 2018 on 31 January. The Office received a total of 10,130 enquiries and 4,870 complaints in 2018. The figures were at similar levels to those in the past few years, with an average of 850 enquiries and 400 complaints per month.
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2023-06-29
Former Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman honoured by King
Former Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Michael King has been awarded a CBE in His Majesty the King’s Birthday Honours, announced 19 June 2023. Mr King served as the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman from 2017 to March 2023, having previously been the organisation’s Chief Executive and serving more than 30 years in the public sector including as a trading standards officer.
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2024-01-11
1st ever visit of Thai Chief Ombudsman to Karachi
At the invitation of the Honourable Ombudsman Sindh, Mr. Ajaz Ali Khan, the President of the IOI Asia Region and Chief Ombudsman, Honorable Mr. Somsak Suwansujarit, along with his wife, Mrs. Nipa Suwansujarit, visited Karachi (Pakistan) from 28 November to 1 December 2023.
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2023-08-24
Second International Ombuds Expo 2024 to be held in Gaborone from 29 July to 2 August 2024
Advocate Stephen Tiroyakgosi, the Ombudsman and Human Rights Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana, is pleased to announce that the Second International Ombud Expo will be held in Gaborone, Botswana from 29 July to 2 August 2024. For the announcements in English, French and Spanish kindly see the download section in the article.
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2023-01-02
AORC/IOI Webinar - Mediation / Alternative Dispute Resolution - Invitation & Speaker Information
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2024-03-14
The Ombudsman announces direct investigation report on “Regulation of Licensed Swimming Pools by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department”
On 7 March 2024, the Ombudsman Ms. Winnie Chiu, held a press conference announcing the results of the direct investigation report on "Regulation of Licenced Swimming Pools by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department".
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2023-02-16
Issue 5 – Giving voice to mental health patients (Feb. 2021)
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2020-04-28
Public Defender positively evaluates situation at checkpoints
Representatives of the Public Defender’s office visited the checkpoints set up for quarantine purposes in Marneuli, Rustavi and Mtskheta, where servicemen of the Defense Forces are deployed together with representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to evaluate the working conditions, health care procedures and monitored the procedures carried out by the military towards citizens at the checkpoints.