New policy report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by the Universal Rights Group, on "The Road From Principles To Practice: today's challenges for business in respecting human rights".

The former minister and honorary mediator of Ivory Coast Mathieu Vangah Ekra passed away in Abidjan at the end of February 2015.

A woman in her 90s suffered serious bruising to her face just before she died after falling in hospital, a Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman investigation found. The vulnerable lady was admitted to hospital with a chest infection and suffered severe bruising to her face when she fell out of bed, when an agency health care assistant was changing her bedding.

The 28^th Annual Meeting of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva was marked by the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the ICC and the IOI on 12 March 2015.

IOI President John R. Walters and IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter attended the 28^th Annual Meeting of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights which was held in Geneva from 11 to 13 March 2015.

Investigation update: 4,075 cases resolved as systemic probe continues. Just 13 months after launching an investigation into billing and customer service problems at Hydro One, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin announced today his office has received more than 10,000 complaints about the utility – its highest total, by far, for any investigation to date.

Lynette Stephenson was re-appointed Ombudsman of Trinidad and Tobago on 19 February 2015 for a term of three years by the President of Trinidad and Tobago. 

General Tiémoko Marc Garango, first Mediator and a key figure in the political life of Burkina Faso, died in Ouagadougou on 6 March 2015, aged 88.