The “2022 Annual Report of the Control Yuan,” the latest yearly record, has been published. Over the course of 2022, the CY received 14,207 people’s complaints, issued 282 investigation reports, passed 27 impeachment cases, and proposed corrective measures in 108 cases. 

On Thursday, 29 June 2023, Ombudsperson Gaby Schwarz and Ombudsman Walter Rosenkranz welcomed four members of the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag at the Austrian Ombudsman Board. The aim of the visit of the delegation, which visited Austria as second country as part of a study trip, was to exchange experiences with the Austrian Ombudsman Board on the differences between the Austrian and the German systems of complaint handling bodies for citizens.

La institución Defensor del Pueblo hace un llamamiento al Organismo Estatal Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social solicitando que estrechen los controles para proteger a las personas expuestas a condiciones ambientales extremas en el ejercicio de su actividad laboral.

Con ocasión de conmemorarse el Día Internacional en Apoyo de las Víctimas de la Tortura, el 26 de junio, la Defensoría del Pueblo dio a conocer el primer Reporte de casos de presunta tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes conocidos por el Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura, en el que se da cuenta de un total de 687 casos registrados por las diversas oficinas de la Defensoría del Pueblo, entre 2021 y el primer trimestre de 2023.

Former Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman Michael King has been awarded a CBE in His Majesty the King’s Birthday Honours, announced 19 June 2023. Mr King served as the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman from 2017 to March 2023, having previously been the organisation’s Chief Executive and serving more than 30 years in the public sector including as a trading standards officer.

The group of political party chairpersons of the City Council of the City of Copenhagen have determined that politicians cannot accept annual cards from the amusement park Tivoli Gardens. The City of Copenhagen says so in a reply to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

The NSW Ombudsman has released a short paper looking at some ways of how the social media conduct of agencies and individual public servants could lead to concerns about possible misconduct or maladministration.

El 22 de junio de 2023, la Defensoría del Pueblo de la provincia de Santa Fe firmó en Rosario un convenio marco de cooperación institucional con el Club Policial de Rosario y su Centro de Resolución de Conflictos, con el objetivo promover y proteger los derechos fundamentales e intercambiar experiencias y conocimientos sobre la resolución alternativa de conflictos.