UNESCO has extended the deadline of the 2021 UNESCO Survey on Public Access to Information (SDG Indicator 16.10.2) to 21 May 2021 and invites IOI members to take part in it.

Este impacto de la pandemia en las actuaciones del Defensor del Pueblo andaluz lo ha destacado hoy el titular de la institución, Jesús Maeztu, en la presentación del Informe Anual 2020 ante la Comisión de Nombramientos, Relaciones con el Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz y Peticiones celebrada en el Parlamento andaluz.

The 2020 annual reports for Saskatchewan’s Ombudsman and Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner, Mary McFadyen, were tabled in the Legislature today. While some complaints to her Office continued as usual, the pandemic affected others. Complaints about long-term care facilities and correctional centres increased, but complaints about Social Services, SGI and Crown utilities decreased. Twelve of the 41 contacts made to her Office under The Public Interest Disclosure Act were related to the pandemic.

Les médiateurs fédéraux David Baele et Jérôme Aass ont remis leur rapport annuel 2020 à la Présidente de la Chambre Eliane Tillieux.

The Action Plan for implementing the Strategy for Improving the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Serbia from 2020 to 2024 designates the Protector of Citizens to act as the national monitoring mechanism on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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.