The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights carried out forty on-site inspections in Hungary during the state of danger that had been ordered on 11 March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

El Instituto Internacional de Ombudsman (IIO) manifiesta su preocupación y rechazo ante las diversas manifestaciones de agravio e intimidatorias en contra de los Defensores del Pueblo de Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala y Peru.

 

The International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) expresses its great concern regarding the negative statements and damaging remarks Ombudsman colleagues in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Peru currently face.

On June 30 the Ombudsman of Israel, Mr. Matanyahu Englman, submitted to the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) Annual Report 46 of the Office of the Ombudsman for the year 2019.

On July 17, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova and representatives of the Council of Europe held an online seminar to discuss Russian experience at federal and regional level with regard to compliance with international human rights standards in the framework of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The report covers all segments of life that directly or indirectly affect the rights of citizens, and it is also a reflection of their perception of how the administration functioned in the previous year through the number of submitted complaints. There is no better benchmark for the (non) functioning of the institutions than the complaints of the citizens who are trying every day to exercise their rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and the law.

La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación presenta el nuevo informe sobre la situación de las personas privadas de la libertad ante la actual emergencia sanitaria. El documento indica los motivos del relativo descenso de la población privada de libertad y contabiliza 120 casos positivos al cierre del mismo.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has published two consultations and would like to invite the ombuds community to contribute to these.