The Inspector-General of Taxation (IGT), Mr Ali Noroozi, welcomes the public release of his report into the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) Fraud Control Management. The Parliament’s Senate Economics References Committee requested that the IGT examines the ATO’s fraud control management due to concerns surrounding allegations of tax fraud that may be linked to abuse of position by a public official.

The Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior Bahrain has released his fifth Annual Report for the period 2017/2018. The Office was established as part of the Bahraini government’s response to the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI).

The Ombudsman of Hong Kong, Ms Connie Lau, held a press conference on 18 October 2018 to announce the results of a direct investigation report on “Housing Department’s arrangement for using idle spaces in public housing estates” and a full investigation report on “Transport Department’s improper arrangement for implementation of 2-way toll collection at the Lantau Link”, that caused serious traffic congestion.

The Office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO) published the October edition of its quarterly bulletin. The bulletin contains news of the upcoming conference on own initiative investigations to be held in Belfast next week, a link to NIPSO’s new animated video for members of the public and a selection of the Office’s latest investigation reports.

IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter welcomes Chinese law professors. On October 17th, the renowned Chinese Professor and lawyer Xigen Wang visited the headquarters of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and the Austrian Ombudsman Board.

More than 260 NHRI representatives from around the globe met from 10 to 12 October in Marrakech, Morocco, to explore the roles and contributions NHRIs can have in expanding civic space and promoting and protecting human rights defenders, with a particular attention to women human rights defenders.

Tabling her investigation into the imprisonment of a woman found unfit to stand trial in the Victorian Parliament today, Ms Glass found the woman’s treatment breached Victoria’s human rights laws and international standards on the rights of people with disabilities. Ms Glass said: “we need to ask ourselves how a humane society can justify such treatment”.

La delegación de la Agencia Tributaria en Las Palmas alega que solo las madres pueden beneficiarse de la rebaja fiscal. Uno de los padres ha denunciado ante el Diputado del Común la discriminación a la que se ve sometido. Ya ha ganado en los tribunales la prestación por nacimiento y tiene reclamado el descuento.