La Defensora de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes de la Provincia de Santa Fe, Analía Colombo, concurrió este martes a la Comisión de Derechos y Garantías de la Cámara de Diputados de Santa Fe,  por la convocatoria que efectuaran algunos legisladores. La funcionaria asistió acompañada del Defensor del Pueblo, Raúl Lamberto, y su equipo técnico y del encuentro participaron los legisladores Alicia Gutierrez, Carlos Del Frade, Silvia Augsburger, Verónica Benas, Santiago Mascheroni, Alejandro Boscarol, Claudia Moyano y Patricia Tepp.

Anna Šabatová, Czech Ombudswoman, and Günther Kräuter, one of the three members of the Austrian Ombudsman Board, together with their colleagues from the social security departments met in Vienna on the 20th February and discussed the cross-border problems concerning the application of the EU Regulation on the Coordination of Social Security Systems in the EU Member States.

The Seimas Ombudsmen's Office was granted a certificate attesting to its compliance with the Parise Principles during the General Assembly of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) on 20-23 February 2018.

The new Ombudsman Act 2017 commenced on 31 January 2018. The coming into effect of this new Act means that any person who is unhappy about how any government office deals with them, can complain to the Ombudsman. Furthermore, the Ombudsman is empowered by this new Act to not only investigate appropriate complaints that it received but can also initiate investigations on its own from information received from any other source including the media.

Le 15 février, le Défenseur des droits a lancé une campagne de communication pour inciter les femmes victimes de harcèlement sexuel à faire valoir leurs droits. Dans son enquête consacrée au harcèlement sexuel au travail publiée en 2014, le Défenseur des droits révélait qu’une femme sur cinq avait fait l’objet de harcèlement sexuel au travail.

While participating in the annual meeting of the General Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) in Geneva from 21 - 23 February 2018, IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter used the opportunity to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT).

Questions related to reporting on the sessions of the Council of Elders and organizing journalists’ activities in the Municipality’s building are under the Human Rights Defender’s primary attention. Transparency and proper reporting is one of the important guarantees for securing public trust and citizens’ right to receive information.

"Fairness: A right, not a privilege" is the theme of this year’s report. It addresses the issue of fairness and how it applies to the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) delivery of service to taxpayers, and how the Ombudsman continues to help the CRA improve its service to taxpayers.