The Constitutional Court of St Maarten declares the complaint of the Ombudsman concerning not consulting the Council of Advice on the introduction of the Amendment to the Bill leading to the Integrity Chamber Ordinance well founded.

The Ombudsman, Ms Connie Lau, released to the public the latest issue of her Annual Report. 

The AOB is obliged to annually report and inform the SPT about its work under the OPCAT mandate. The report on the prevention of torture 2015 gives an account of the activities of the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism.

Con el fin de facilitar la difusión y el acceso al contenido del Informe Anual 2015: la situación de los derechos humanos en las cárceles federales de Argentina producido por la Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación, se encuentra disponible online un resumen ejecutivo del mismo en versión español e inglés.

The Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman’s Office published its final Annual Report of the Assembly Ombudsman/Commissioner for Complaints (AOCC) for the 2015-16 year.

L’Ombudsman pour les Pensions réceptionnait régulièrement des plaintes de fonctionnaires pensionnés portant sur le retard structurel et systématique de paiement de leur pension du fait que ce paiement avait lieu sur un compte bancaire à l’étranger. 

The Pensions Ombudsmen regularly received complaints from retired civil servants living abroad who receive their pension on a foreign account.  In order to obtain their pension, they had to submit a certificate of life each month.

The Ombudsman’s Annual Report for 2015 reports on the work of the Office in its 10th anniversary of service.