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Ombudsmen Globally

The Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism has released a report as part of its monitoring role under the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. The report identified several systemic issues and concerns related to the service provider transition, which impacted overall safety and security and the day to day lives and experiences of people in detention.
In 2025, the Parliamentary Ombudsman visited Denmark’s eight departments of forensic psychiatry. In his thematic report, which was published in English on 6 February 2026, the Ombudsman summarises the results of the thematic visits and makes a number of general recommendations.
The ACRC focuses on disseminating a culture of integrity among younger generations and improving corruption-prone areas in local communities through expanded assessments that include national and public universities as well as local public corporations and agencies, in order to support the national task “Reform Corruption Prevention Systems to Realize the Rights of Citizens”.