Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier has released the Ombudsman’s Annual Report for 2016/17, saying it shows his Office is having a greater impact in more areas and on more lives so that people are treated fairly in New Zealand.

 

La valedora do pobo, Milagros Otero Parga, participó en la cumbre de los líderes de instituciones más transparentes de España celebrado en La Nucía (Alicante) donde recibió un premio de la organización Transparencia Pública por sus buenas prácticas en la difusión de la información pública.

The Control Yuan (CY) held the 2017 Seniors’ Human Rights Seminar on 29 September, two days ahead of the United Nations International Day of Older Persons. Government officials, expert scholars and leading professionals were invited to take part for discussions on issues related to human rights for the elderly.

The Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania appointed a lawyer, a social scientist and former Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania as head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office for the second term of office.

Ce vendredi 20 octobre 2017, le Médiateur, Marc BERTRAND, entouré de ses collègues médiateurs fédéraux, flamand, de la Communauté germanophone et des Pensions, a participé à une rencontre avec le Parlement BENELUX. A cette occasion, le Président, M. André POSTEMA, accompagné de la Vice-Présidente, Mme Maya DETIEGE et de la Secrétaire générale, Mme Christine BOGAERT, ont souhaité cette année encore, inviter les Ombudsmans et Médiateurs pour avoir un échange de vue et un aperçu des problèmes transfrontaliers.

Local authorities are being reminded about the need to house homeless families appropriately, following two separate investigations into the London Borough of Redbridge by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Poverty is an enemy of human rights and states are successful to the extent on how much they look after the most vulnerable, said Ombudswoman Lora Vidović at the opening of the conference on energy poverty, that she organised on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and Social Exclusion. The participants welcomed the new measures announced by the representative of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, Dean Smolar.

El día 30 de marzo de 2015 en el Complejo Penitenciario I de Ezeiza una persona privada de la libertad habría sido torturada por dos agentes del Servicio Penitenciario Federal. La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación presentó una denuncia al respecto, la cual fue llevada adelante por la Fiscalía y la Procuraduría de Violencia Institucional (Procuvin).