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2023-11-0715. Working Session C: Prof. Andrew Goldsmith – Ensuring robust and resilient oversight under challenging conditions
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2024-04-05Commissioner for Older People launches new report ‘Are you ageist?’
The Commissioner for Older People says more needs to be done to tackle age-based discrimination in Northern Ireland, as his latest report finds almost half of older people have experienced ageism.
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2019-08-27
Ombudsman engages Sierra Leone police
The Ombudsman of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Leon Jenkins-Johnston esq. and team from the Office of the Ombudsman has engaged Senior Police officers at various divisions in the western Area. The engagement is part of the ongoing sensitization drive that the ombudsman started few months ago to meet with MDA’s.
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2022-02-08
Commissioner of Official Languages - Annual Report 2014/2015 - EN
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2022-02-10
Cyprus - Persons with disabilities - Special Report 2017-2018-2019 - EN
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2024-04-04
CCAC detects alleged false asset declarations made by public servants
The CCAC received a report claiming that two public servants of the Social Welfare Bureau violated the provision of exclusivity by engaging in part-time work and provided false information in the declarations of assets and interests, thus allegedly violating the Legal Regime of Declaration of Assets and Interests.
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2022-02-07
Institution of the Ombudsman - Annual Report 2020 - EN
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2023-11-10
Western Australian Ombudsman tables FDV suicide implementation report
On 9 November 2023, the Western Australian Ombudsman, Chris Field PSM, tabled in Parliament a report on giving effect to the recommendations arising from the Investigation into family and domestic violence and suicide.
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2019-04-15
Ombudsman meets with representatives of the Council of Europe
The Azerbaijani Ombudsman met with Mr. Menno Ettema, program manager, anti-discrimination department of CoE and Anca Sandescu, project manager, capacity building and co-operation projects unit, gender equality division of CoE at the Office of the Ombudsman.
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2018-01-25
Ombudsman Hong Kong presents TV drama series
The Ombudsman of Hong Kong invites IOI members to watch the TV drama series jointly produced by her Office and local TV station. These TV drama series, first of its kind, are based on actual complaint cases handled by the Office.
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2020-11-12
Colonel (Ret’d) Nishika Jardine appointed as the new Veterans Ombudsperson
Colonel (Ret’d) Nishika Jardine was appointed as the new Veterans Ombudsman. She graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a Bachelor of Science in Math and Physics and served almost 37 years as an officer in the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (RCEME).
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2019-03-08
Commonwealth Ombudsman helps students clear inappropriate debts
The Australian Government, with input from the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman, has established new Student Redress Measures to address the large number of complaints about the former VET (Vocational Education and Training) FEE-HELP program.
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2018-11-14
Ombudsman briefs key stakeholders on visit to prisons and detention centres
The Office of the Ombudsman, in line with its mandate to receive complaints from prisoners and detainees, started visiting prisons, police cells and other places of detention.
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2022-09-02
Slovenian Ombudsman - NPM Report 2021
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2019-04-23
ODIHR publishes opinion on draft law relating to appointment of Supreme Court judges
Following the appeal of the Public Defender of Georgia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) published a legal opinion relating to the draft law on the appointment of Supreme Court judges on 17 April 2019.
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2019-04-08
Annual contacts to Ombudsman of Iowa exceed 5,000
Contacts to the Iowa Office of Ombudsman in 2018 reached their highest number in 17 years, according to an annual report released today. Letters and calls from inmates in Iowa’s county jails and their families increased most dramatically – the office fielded 68 percent more jail complaints last year than in 2016. Managed Medicaid complaints held steady after a massive influx in calls from patients and providers in 2017. In sum, complaints, information requests, and special projects in 2018 totaled 5,178. This is more than a 5 percent increase from 2017 and a 29 percent increase since 2013.
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2022-07-21
Provincial Ombudsman Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Annual Report 2021 - EN
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2019-09-10
Promoting and protecting the institution of the Ombusdman
The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, recently adopted a new set of 25 key principles to help protect and promote ombudsmen. The “Venice Principles” have been presented at the Council of Europe office in Brussels on 10 September 2019.
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2020-11-26
Ombudsman community shares experiences on how to handle new challenges caused by Covid-19
On 24 November 2020, the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel held an international Zoom Webinar under the auspices of the IOI on the topic of “Covid-19 and the Ombudsperson - Rising to the Challenge of a Pandemic”. The webinar brought together participants from 50 Ombudsman offices around the world to learn how a long-term crisis can still act as a platform for best practices and improvement.
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2020-05-22
Board of Directors holds first electronic meeting due to Covid-19
On 18 May 2020 the IOI Board of Directors held its annual meeting to identify and discuss projects and priorities for the upcoming membership year. Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Board held its annual meeting by electronic means for the first time and despite the challenge of a wide range of different time zones, 15 out of currently 20 Directors joined the videoconference hosted by the Office of IOI President and Ireland Ombudsman Peter Tyndall.