La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación presenta un nuevo reporte estadístico a
abril de 2021 sobre la situación de las personas privadas de la libertad ante la
actual emergencia sanitaria.

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia today reappointed Jay Chalke as British Columbia’s Ombudsperson for a second six-year term. The appointment followed the unanimous recommendation of the legislature’s Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.

The IOI together with five other international human rights organisations published a joined statement in support of the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights today, 14 May 2021.

The Ombudsman of Hong Kong, China, Ms Winnie Chiu, held a press conference on 13 May 2021 to announce the results of two own-motion investigations regarding the regulatory regime for lifts and escalators and the management and repair of public toilets by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and Architectural Services Department.

Desde el ILO se considera necesario alertar respecto de la necesidad de garantizar el acceso a la vacunación en condiciones trasparentes, respetando el principio de igualdad y no discriminación para todas y todos los habitantes como estrategia para superar la pandemia del COVID-19 en todo el mundo.

The members of the Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB), Mr Bernhard Achitz, Mr Walter Rosenkranz and Mr Werner Amon presented on the basis of the annual report the AOB’s investigation results from 2020 and gave, on the basis of some selected complaints and their own perceptions, an insight into the work of the monitoring and human rights institution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the AOB published its annual report in three volumes for the first time. In addition to Volume 1 ‘Monitoring of public administration’ and Volume 2 ‘Preventive human rights monitoring’, Volume 3 ‘Covid-19’ covers all those observations related to the 2020 Covid-19 measures.

The African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA) expresses concern about developments in Northern Mozambique where violence from Islamist insurgents has resulted in displacement of people, the majority of them women and children, from Palma in Cabo Delgado Province since October 2017.

L’État, tout État, est alimenté par l’affection que lui vouent les gouvernants et les gouvernés. Sans cette affection il ne saurait vivre ou survivre. Ce lien affectif est exprimé à travers la citoyenneté, qui est un exercice, qui peut être simple ou complexe, émotionnel ou raisonnable.