La Defensoría del Pueblo expresa su preocupación por la grave situación de vulnerabilidad e inminente riesgo en el que se encuentran niñas y adolescentes indígenas awajún que habrían sido víctimas de violencia sexual por parte de docentes, situación que data de años atrás y viene afectando su dignidad y vulnerando sus derechos a la integridad, protección, educación, salud física y mental, así como al desarrollo integral y otros derechos conexos.

"Today the Ombudsman consumes neither painkillers nor champagne when it turns out that a case includes EU law." So says Parliamentary Ombudsman Niels Fenger in an article in the English version of the Ombudsman’s 2023 Annual Report. In the article, Niels Fenger analyses the development of the Ombudsman Office’s approach to EU law through the years.

Free training resources designed to support organisations in identifying and helping those experiencing vulnerability are now available online through the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman website. 

Nearly 4,500 complaints about public services were made to the Office of the Ombudsman in 2023. Ombudsman, Ger Deering, has seen a 30% rise in the number of complaints to his Office in recent years, from 3,418 in 2020 to 4,465 last year.

La Presidenta de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México (CDHCM), Nashieli Ramírez Hernández, consideró que la inclusión y participación de las personas en movilidad es la ruta que demanda la actual dinámica migratoria.

L’ombudsman de Montréal, Me Nadine Mailloux, a déposé le 17 juin 2024 au conseil municipal son rapport d’activités pour l’année 2023. Ce 20e rapport annuel du Bureau fait état de 2 223 dossiers traités, incluant 215 nouvelles enquêtes sur des sujets très variés, dont 47 lancées à l’initiative de l’OdM. To read the report in English, kindly also click here.

On 4 June 2024, the Office of the Public Protector released a report on the investigations into administrative deficiencies relating to the processing of gender-based violence (GBV) related matters within the South African criminal justice system. The investigation emanates from the administrative challenges faced by the public, particularly women and children, in the South African criminal justice system identified by the Public Protector.

The Provincial Ombudsman Khyber Pakhtunkhwa carried out an awareness raising campaign in the Southern Region of the Province in May 2024. This project was supported by the IOI's Regional Subsidy Programme.