The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) will hold its annual meeting from 4 – 6 March 2019 in Geneva. During this meeting, GANHRI gathers NHRIs from all around the world for their General Assembly, the Annual Conference, and several other meetings and side events.

The annual meeting of the IOI Board of Directors will be held from 14 – 16 May 2019 in Mérida (Mexico). The Board accepted the generous invitation of Mr Luis Raúl González Pérez, President of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) to host this event in 2019.

Palabras de Luis Raúl González Pérez, Presidente de la CNDH en la Audiencia Pública relativa a la Reforma Constitucional en materia de Guardia Nacional. Estas incluyen los puntos básicos del análisis que formula la CNDH de México, respecto del dictamen aprobado en sentido positivo, por la Comisión de Puntos Constitucionales, de la H. Cámara de Diputados, que replantea a la Guardia Nacional.

During 20 – 21 November 2018, General Viddhavat Rajatanun, Chief Ombudsman of Thailand, and Mr. Boon Tapanadul, Ombudsman, as well as Mr. Raksagecha Chaechai, Secretary-General of the Office of the Ombudsman and executives, welcomed the delegation from the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea, led by Mr. Kwon Kunsang, Director-General of the Ombudsman Bureau. 

 

The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency, Brigadier Retired Julius Maada Bio, appointed on the 23^th October 2018 the Lawyer Mr. Leon Jenkins-Johnston as the New Ombudsman of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

 

On Tuesday 8 January IOI President and Irish Ombudsman Peter Tyndall appeared before the UK Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Mr Tyndall was giving his observations on the performance of the UK Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.  This followed a peer review of the PHSO which Mr Tyndall chaired with Caroline Mitchell (Lead Ombudsman Financial Ombudsman Service) and Chris Gill (lecturer, University of Glasgow).

 

The Human Rights Defender published a Concept document on Combating Criminal Subculture in Penitentiary Institutions of the Ministry of Justice in the form of an ad hoc thematic report. The Criminal Subculture (informal prison hierarchy) in Penitentiary Institutions and its impact on the relations between persons deprived of liberty and on the penitentiary system have been comprehensively reviewed and monitored by using special tools and criteria.

 

This year, Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass prepared a video of the “2018 year in review” presenting the nine investigation reports tabled by the Victorian Ombudsman throughout the year.