La Defensora de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes de la Provincia de Santa Fe a cargo de la Defensoría del Pueblo Zona Sur, Analía Colombo, expuso este jueves en la VI Asamblea General del Instituto Latinoamericano del Ombudsman–Defensor del Pueblo. La actividad, que se lleva a cabo en la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro entre el 28 y el 29 de mayo, reúne a los defensores y ombudsman de toda América latina.

The Bahrain Ombudsman, the first Independent Ombudsman in the Region, presents its second annual report. The Office investigates complaints against employees of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) and has the important role of ensuring that prisoners and detainees are treated appropriately and are not subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

The European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, has opened an investigation into the transparency of "trilogues" with a view to boosting transparent law-making in the EU. Trilogues are informal negotiations between the European Parliament (EP), the Council and the Commission aimed at reaching early agreements on new EU legislation.

The joint investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman found the woman was left without the right care package for more than a year, because of a dispute between Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health trust.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) published the “ACRC Korea Annual Report 2014,” a collection of the ACRC’s performance and major policies of the year 2014. As the protector of civil rights, the ACRC actively performed its duties, dealing with 28,744 complaints among 30,038 complaints received last year.

In March Ombudsman Ron Paterson released an opinion under the Ombudsmen Act about an investigation into a decision by a school Board of Trustees to expel a high school student with Aspergers. Following an incident where the year 11 student had threatened to assault a teacher the Board had expelled him for “gross misconduct” that was “a harmful or dangerous example to other students”.

Reporting on the largest investigation in his office’s history – comprising more than 10,500 complaints – the Ombudsman revealed a litany of egregious problems with billing and customer service arising from Hydro One’s disastrous installation of a new customer information system in May 2013, which he estimates affected well over 100,000 customers.

While addressing members of the Federal Advisory Committee on Reforms and Speedy Complaint Resolution and Federal and Provincial Ombudsmen of Pakistan, the President of Pakistan expressed his appreciation of the concept of speedy resolution of complaints at the doorsteps of the common man, free of cost, evolved by the Ombudsmen and the committee. The Federal Advisory Committee comprises of eminent and renowned personalities of Pakistan with a record of public service in the country.