The Office of the National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman in partnership with the Canadian Veterans Ombudsman released and analysis on the priority hiring of medically released Canadian Armed Forces members, entitled “Canadian Armed Forces best positioned to determine Public Service priority hiring for releasing members.”

Despite being enshrined in the Satversme and national legislation, the rights of children who have lost their families and come into state custody are not being observed or ensured at state-run boarding schools.

The Catalan Ombudsman submitted the Annual Report 2014 to Parliament. In 2014 the office handled over 27,211 actions, concerning 53.095 people of which 40% were related to social policies. The Catalan version of the 2014 Annual Report is now available online.

A man died because of a blood clot in a vein after two GPs in Yorkshire failed to adequately assess him, an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found.

From 11 March 2015 to 03 April 2015, an E-forum will explore patterns of engagement between accountability institutions and CSOs and will address key questions concerning different types of collaboration between these stakeholders.

Deputy Northern Ireland Ombudsman Marie Anderson together with the Director of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Ms Virginia McVea, presented the results of a joint project on a “Human Rights-based approach to the Ombudsman work” to staff members from the Austrian Ombudsman Board in Vienna.

During the third quarter of the year, the Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas visited almost all the institutions that are responsible for the custody of aliens in Lithuania.

The IOI is pleased to inform its members about a new training cooperation established with the Association for the Prevention of Torture, which will result in a first IOI workshop with a substantive focus on the topic of National Preventive Mechanisms under the OPCAT.