Chris Field, President of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and Western Australian Ombudsman, presented two Golden Orders of Merit during his official visit to New Zealand.

Chris Field, President of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and Western Australian Ombudsman, attended the annual conference of the Australasian and Pacific Ombudsman Region, in Wellington, New Zealand.

The Office of the Ombudsman of Kenya recently published their Newsletter for July – September 2022.

The BC Ombudsperson’s 2021/22 Annual Report, released 18 October, highlights that complaints about health care from British Columbians were the highest in a decade. The office received almost 1,300 complaints and enquiries focused on programs and services provided by the Ministry of Health and B.C.’s health authorities.

Les hacemos llegar el 42. Reporte Semanal 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).

The Commonwealth Ombudsman, Mr Iain Anderson, published a report, Did They Do What They Said They Would? volume 2, on 17 October 2022.  The report contains point-in-time assessments that measure the progress made by 8 agencies to implement 73 accepted recommendations made by the Office in 10 reports between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2021.

El Defensor del Pueblo ha avanzado sus primeras conclusiones sobre lo sucedido en el perímetro fronterizo de Melilla el pasado 24 de junio. Tras analizar la documentación recibida por parte del Ministerio del Interior y del Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones, la institución concluye que se efectuó un rechazo en frontera de 470 personas sin contemplarse las previsiones legales tanto nacionales como internacionales.

The report “National Mechanism for the Investigation of Arbitrary Incidents” for 2021 aims to enhance transparency and focuses on groups of cases or independent incidents that have raised public concern.