El Yuan de Control concede gran importancia a la reconstrucción de Hualien y Taitung tras el terremoto ocurrido antes del Año Nuevo Chino en febrero de 2018, por lo que envió 4 miembros del Comité de Supervisiones para realizar una visita de inspección del 29 a 31 de marzo,  a fin de conocer la situación de los refugios para los damnificados y la reconstrucción del Condado de Hualien, además de revisar las obras del Gobiernos del Condado de Taitung.

El programa europeo DEMOS, que lidera el Diputado del Común, ha convocado el Concurso Escolar Canario de Dibujos sobre Derechos Humanos. Una iniciativa que nace con la voluntad de promover la concienciación entre los estudiantes canarios sobre la importancia de los Derechos Humanos, fomentar el pensamiento crítico, ético y cívico y, en definitiva, cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad más justa e igualitaria.

Irish Ombudsman Peter Tyndall today welcomed Minister Michael Creed’s announcement that he will implement an Ombudsman recommendation that a Donegal family receive compensation of €245,570.  The announcement follows an initial refusal in 2009 by the then Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to implement the recommendation. 

Maribyrnong City Council has treated disadvantaged people harshly by refusing to cancel parking fines in cases where exceptional circumstances justified cancellation, the Victorian Ombudsman has found. Ombudsman Deborah Glass said the council’s practices were lacking in fairness and discretion when compared with five other metropolitan councils.

On 30 April 2018 the IOI organized a side event at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York to mark the 40th anniversary of its establishment in 1978. The event provided a platform for exchange between the United Nations and the Ombudsman community, as well as the perfect setting for the launch of the IOI’s most recent publication on “A Mission to Justice – The International Ombudsman Institute 1978-2018”. 

Experts praise the conduct of the police officer who arrested the suspect in the deadly incident involving a van that killed 10 people and injured 13 others in Toronto on 23 April. “This is exactly the type of de-escalation … and response to these types of confrontations that we hope to see,” said Ontario ombudsman Paul Dube.

A delegation of the South Korean National Assembly's Committee for Gender Equality and Family visited the Control Yuan on March 30. The two sides engaged in open and friendly exchanges of views on a range of topics, including women’s political participation as well as the supervision of government. The visiting dignitaries praised the Control Yuan’s balanced gender ratio after President Chang explained that 14 of the CY’s 29 members, half of its directors and more than half of its employees are female.

La Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México presentó la investigación Estudios sobre el cumplimiento e impacto de las recomendaciones generales, informes especiales y pronunciamientos de la CNDH 2001-2017, Tomo I - Niñas, niños y adolescentes. Este estudio tiene como objetivo generar un diagnóstico sobre los alcances y el grado de cumplimiento de los Instrumentos de Posicionamiento emitidos por la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH) en el tema de niñas, niños y adolescentes.