The honourable Justice Mr. U.C. Maheshwari took oath as Up-Lokayukt (Deputy Ombudsman) of Madhya Pradesh on 28 June 2016. He was administered oath of office by the outgoing Lokayukt Justice P. P.Naolekar.

In June 2016 New Zealand Chief Ombudsman Judge Peter Boshier published his Strategic Intentions for 2016-2020. The new targets of the Office include to eliminate its backlog of aged complaints and to deal with the majority of new complaints (70%) within three months.

This Casebook contains summaries of recent cases the Ombudsman has dealt with. 

The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights spoke during a meeting on the organisation of the monitoring of the fulfilment of the Action Plan and on the implementation of the National Strategy in the field of human rights, which was organized by the Ombudsman's Office and the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights (UHUHR).

The Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman published his annual report 2015 and the annual report 2015 for the national preventive mechanism (NPM), a mandate that the Ombudsman has exercised since Norway ratified the OPCAT in 2013.  

Alejandro Amor, el Defensor del Pueblo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, presentó ante la Legislatura porteña una iniciativa para ampliar el derecho al voto y promover el debate de candidatos, la igualdad de género, la inclusión de la observación electoral, un registro de autoridades de mesa y la creación de un Tribunal Electoral.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has today published a set of quality standards, which are commitments to people who use the service about what they can expect from it.

The Control Yuan (CY) recently published a report on its activity in 2015.