During this year´s European Alpbach Forum a breakout session organised by the IOI and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will examine the pressure faced by human rights defenders and the role Ombudsman and National Human Rights Institutions play in strengthening democracy and the rule of law.

The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), a regional membership organisation of African NHRIs based in Nairobi Kenya is organising a technical workshop on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) for representatives of NHRIs and SOGIE-related Civil Society Organisations. The workshop will be held on July 23 – 25 in Entebbe, Uganda.

The UK Parliamentary Ombudsman will be hosting a seminar on Peer Review in London in conjunction with the IOI on Monday, 23 September 2019.  This follows on from the review of his Office which IOI President, Peter Tyndall led in conjunction with the late Caroline Mitchell of the UK Financial Ombudsman and Christian Gill, Lecturer in Public Law at University of Glasgow.

The Hong Kong Ombudsman, Ms Winnie Chiu, presented to the public today (25 July) the 2018-19 Annual Report of the Office of The Ombudsman. The Office of The Ombudsman (the Office) received 4,991 complaints in 2018-19, slightly higher than the previous year’s figure. Among the complaints received, 205 were concluded by way of full investigation, of which 58 (28.3%) were substantiated or partially substantiated, similar to previous year’s figure of 26.2%.

Este viernes 5 de julio el Centro de Mediación y Resolución de Conflictos que funciona dentro del ámbito de la Defensoría del Pueblo de la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina, cumple 24 años de vida. Comenzó a funcionar en 1995, siendo el primero en su tipo en la República Argentina, cuando sus nueve primeros mediadores, que contaban con títulos expedidos por el Ministerio de Justicia de la Nación, fueron matriculados en el Registro Nacional de Mediadores de ese organismo nacional, creado con el fin de poder implementar una ley nacional de mediación.

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Fourteen representatives from seven Pacific countries will undertake Ombudsman investigator training in Fiji next week. The Office of the New Zealand Ombudsman is leading the training which will take a typical complaint through the whole investigation process.

La Procuración Penitenciaria ha solicitado a la justicia, desde marzo de 2018, el arresto domiciliario de una persona que se encuentra alojada en el Hospital Penitenciario Central (HPC) del CPF 1 de Ezeiza, con un cuadro extremadamente delicado por el padecimiento de un cáncer conocido como Linfoma no Hodgkin (células del manto).