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2018-06-07Parliamentary Ombudsman presents Annual Report 2017 to the President of the House of Representatives
The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Mr Anthony C. Mifsud, called upon the President of the House of Representatives, the Hon. Angelo Farrugia to present the Office of the Ombudsman’s Annual Report for 2016. During the meeting with the Speaker, the Ombudsman announced that during the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Mediterranean Ombudsman in Skopje, Macedonia, he was appointed as Secretary General of the Association.
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2019-05-06
Ombudsman participated in the international symposium on family rights
The Ombudsman participated and presented the role of mediation in protection of family in the International Symposium on the right of protection of family, which was organized by the National Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey in Ankara.
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2019-05-02
Ombudsman receives the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received this afternoon Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The meeting addressed the concerns and recommendations that the Ombudsman, as National Human Rights Institution, has recently presented in the scope of the Universal Periodic Review.
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2021-03-11New Zealand - OPCAT COVID-19 Report: report on inspections of prisons under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 - June 2020 - EN
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2019-09-27
Annual Report of the Québec Ombudsman: public services with excessive requirements
On the occasion of the tabling of her Annual Report at the National Assembly of Québec on September 26, Ombudsperson Marie Rinfret presented her findings concerning the quality and integrity of Québec’s public services.
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2018-04-27
The South Korean Gender Equality and Family Committee delegation visiting the Control Yuan
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2018-04-04
Forum for the creation of an NPM database at the Austrian Ombudsman Board
On 27 and 28 March 2018, the Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the Austrian Ombudsman Board organized a forum with representatives from NPMs of six European countries and international and European experts. The topic was the possible creation of a databank for the exchange of national standards in places of detention and NPM recommendations.
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2018-07-26
Resolving complaints to the Ombudsman early
In late 2016, the Victorian Ombudsman created an Early Resolution Team which identifies matters that can be resolved informally, focusing on practical outcomes. The team now handles about 85 per cent of approaches to the Ombudsman, closing most within 30 days.
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2017-11-06
The Ombudsman's Casebook_Issue 30_Welsh
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2019-07-09
The Public Defender of Rights of the Czech Republic Anna Šabatová openly expressed support to her Polish colleague Adam Bodnar
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2020-08-20
ACRC recommended improvement on 155 corruption risk factors in 71 statutes in the first half of 2020
In the first half of this year, Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun Heui) conducted a Corruption Impact Assessment which found 155 corruption risk factors in 71 out of 1,010 enacted and revised statutes of central government agencies and recommended improvement thereon.
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2018-10-23
10th Biennial CAROA Conference – Save the Date
The 10th Biennial Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA) Conference and training will be held in Bermuda from 28 – 31 May 2019. Please save the dates! The proposed theme of the conference is “Strengthening the role and performance of Ombudsman and Human Rights Institutions in the Caribbean”. The conference will be followed by a two-days training session.
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2019-10-29
The IOI Europe workshop from 16 to 17 October 2019 focused on the EU General Data Protection Regulation and respective human rights aspects
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2018-07-09
4th NPM Workshop – Save the Date!
Over the past years the IOI has developed several training programmes that cater to the specific needs of member institutions acting as National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). The 4th IOI workshop for NPMs will be generously hosted by the Office of the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman and held in Copenhagen from 7 - 9 November 2018.
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2021-03-11
New Zealand - OPCAT COVID-19 report: Report on inspections of aged care facilities under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 - August 2020 - EN
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2020-06-15
Application of legal standards developed by the Human Rights Defender of Armenia by Courts of Armenia
Since 2016, the Human Rights Defender has started a new practice of developing jurisprudence and legal standards in decisions related to concrete cases. This procedure is based on the same principles as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Cassation or the Constitutional Court and is an example of how the case law can be developed through the work of the country's legal institutions based on international obligations.
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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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2018-01-10
Toronto Ombudsman Looking into the City’s Cold-Weather Services for the Homeless
The City of Toronto’s Ombudsman, Susan Opler, has begun an Enquiry into communication, capacity planning and quality of the winter programs offered to Toronto’s homeless.
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2017-10-31
Investigation report by the Québec Ombudsman: The process for handling complaints within the education system must be reviewed
In an investigation report released today, the Québec Ombudsman delivered its findings and recommendations regarding the complaint examination procedure within the education system.
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2018-12-21
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Report 12_18
