The Victorian Ombudsman's report Councils and complaints: Glen Eira City Council’s approach to contractor work, tabled 26 April 2023, details one individual’s experience and potentially broader issues affecting councils and their communities across Victoria. The investigation found widespread inconsistency in the way councils across the state handle complaints about the services they outsource to third-party contractors.

This is a kind reminder for the Webinar under the theme “Showcasing Sectoral Ombudsman - The Higher Education Ombudsman”, which will be organized by the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC) on 9 May 2023, to which you are cordially invited.

La síndica de greuges de Cataluña, Esther Giménez-Salinas i Colomer, ha designado a Aida C. Rodríguez y Giménez adjunta para la defensa de los derechos de los niños y de los adolescentes, en sustitución de Maria Jesús Larios Paterna, que ocupaba el cargo desde el 2010 y que recientemente ha tomado posesión como nueva miembro del Consejo de Garantías Estatutarias.

The amount of 9 locals - who reside at moo 9 and moo 20, Muang Kao sub-district, Prachin Buri province - had submitted an appeal to the Ombudsman to find facts on the actions of the Provincial Electricity Authority - Kabin Buri Office and of the Muang Kao Sub-district Administrative Office about not expanding the electricity distribution area which has had an impact on them for more than 50-years. 

The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, Dr. Ákos Kozma, took part in the plenary meeting of the Network of European Integrity and Whistleblowing Authorities (NEIWA) in Rome on 23 March 2023.

The Ombudsman of Angola held a commemorative session during the Week of the Ombudsman to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of the Institutionalization of the Ombudsman under the theme “The Ombudsman as Defender of the Fundamental Rights of Citizens”.

Les hacemos llegar el 68. Reporte Internacional de “Derechos Humanos en Perspectiva Internacional” elaborado por el Programa de Observación y Asistencia para el Fortalecimiento de las Defensorías del Pueblo, que forma parte de la Unidad de Política Institucional de la Defensoría del Pueblo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina).

El ámbito de la vida privada de las personas se caracteriza por ser un espacio de libertad que debe estar exento e inmune a las injerencias abusivas o arbitrarias por parte de terceros o de la autoridad pública, advirtió la Presidenta de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México (CDHCM), Nashieli Ramírez Hernández.