The Queensland Ombudsman has released a new information resource to help improve community knowledge about the function of the Office. The new product outlines the role of the Office in 14 community languages and provides information about using the BrowseAloud tool on our website.

 

Currently, Hungary is not yet party to the Optional Protocol to the 30-year-old Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure. It is thus a significant development that upon Commissioner for Fundamental Rights László Székely’s appeal, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities has indicated: they have begun to prepare the decision necessary for Hungary’s joining the optional protocol.

La Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México emitió, el 20 de mayo de 2019, la Recomendación General 36/2019 “Sobre la situación de la población jornalera agrícola en México”.

Councillors in West Sussex have been asked to revisit an Ombudsman’s decision, after they considered the wrong version of a critical report at a council meeting.

The Western Australian Ombudsman has been requested by the Western Australian Government to plan and develop a Reportable Conduct Scheme. The Scheme arises from a five-year national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

 

Con la finalidad de informar acerca del trabajo institucional que se halla plasmado en el último Informe Anual 2018, el cual se presenta anualmente al poder legislativo nacional, el titular de la Procuración Penitenciaria analizó la situación actual de las cárceles federales. En cumplimiento de la ley 25.875, Francisco Mugnolo, aseguró que se recibió un total de 51.989 demandas de la población reclusa durante el año pasado.

 

Information Commissioners, Ombudspersons and other bodies responsible for protecting and promoting the right of access to information can now apply to become a member of the International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC).

In 2018, the Ombudsman's Office received a total of 48,129 requests through the various channels available to citizens, including 36,111 entries of complaints and other communications. During the year, 9338 new procedures were instituted, five of them from the Ombudsman's initiative, which translates into an increase in the handling of complaints of 20% over the previous year.