City Council on 8 April 2021 unanimously approved the biggest change in police oversight in Toronto's recent history. It asked Ombudsman Toronto to develop a Memorandum of Understanding with the Toronto Police Services Board and the Toronto Police Service, giving the Toronto Ombudsman authority to review the fairness of Toronto Police procedures and programs.

En el marco del ciclo “Miradas desde la Economía Social y Solidaria en la Lucha contra el Hambre” se realizó un nuevo webinario donde se trasmitieron las experiencias del Programa de Agricultura Urbana de Rosario.

In order to solve prison overcrowding, the Agency of Corrections (AOC) put accused persons, who are presumed innocent, in the branch prisons of non-prison correction agencies, leading to worse detention conditions than those of actual inmates and violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that untried persons should be separated from convicted detainees. Therefore, the CY has urged the AOC to review the situation and make improvements.

Le vendredi 2 avril 2021, le Comité Enfant de l’Association des Ombudsmans et Médiateurs de la Francophonie (AOMF) organisait une formation en ligne sur le rapport « Les effets du Covid-19 sur les droits de l’enfant » du Délégué général aux droits de l’enfant.

The Ombudsman Institution of the Republic of Turkey is pleased to share the abridged English version of its 2020 Annual Report. The original Annual Report is 582 pages long.

Según las informaciones publicadas, desde hace meses se está sufriendo un desabastecimiento de los medicamentos necesarios para el tratamiento hormonal.

Le Médiateur de la République du Niger et le Centre pour le contrôle démocratique des forces armées DCAF présentent une étude cartographique sur des voies de recours et mécanismes de plaintes que les usagers des services publics peuvent utiliser en cas d’abus ou d’inconduite de la part du personnel public de sécurité.

Vassiliki K. Vretou, a Lawyer-Senior Investigator at the Greek Ombudsman, currently seconded to the General Secretariat of Coordination of the Greek Government, recently published her new book on “Environmental Governance, Ombudsman and future generations”.