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2024-10-24More and more people are turning to the Ombudsman for help
On 22 October 2024, the Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier published his 2023/2024 Annual Report which shows more and more people are turning to the Ombudsman for help. “In 2023/24 I completed the highest number of complaints and protected disclosures ever,” Mr Boshier says.
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2023-01-18
The Pact against school segregation has reduced one fourth of education inequalities
The seventh meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Pact against school segregation, promoted by the Catalan Ombudsman and the Department of Education, was held on 10 January 2023. In the course of this meeting, the Progress report on the deployment of Decree 11/2021 was presented.
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2020-11-20
First Remote Media Training held
On 19 November 2020, the IOI successfully held its first session of the IOI Remote Media Training. The interest in this training was enormous and participants from all six IOI world regions applied. In this first training session, a total of 18 persons from 18 different Ombudsman institutions from all corners of the globe took part in this high-end media training.
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2024-09-19
Ombudsman’s Annual Report promotes fair access for Albertans
In a detailed account of the past year, Ombudsman Kevin Brezinski’s annual report outlines the positive outcomes his office generated through 2023-24. Investigations into systemic problems affecting vulnerable Albertans remained at the forefront.
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2024-08-01
Ombudsman challenges ISS position on unemployment benefit for victims of domestic violence
The Ombudsman’s Office has pleaded with the Social Security Institute (ISS) the right to unemployment benefits for victims of domestic violence who have terminated their employment contracts under the terms of the Decent Work Agenda Law, in force since May 2023. A different position is being adopted by the ISS, which only recognises this right in cases of termination after 1 December 2023.
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2010-12-27
Ombudsman worried over safety of public light buses
Public Light Buses (“PLBs”) are one of the most popular, yet dangerous, modes of public transport in Hong Kong. Ombudsman Alan Lai initiated a direct investigation on safety standards of this public transport service.
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2017-07-25
New Ombudsman appointed
Zoran Pašalić, lawyer from Belgrade, was elected as new Protector of Citizens (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Serbia. Mr. Pašalić was born in 1958. In his long career he worked on legal issues in number of companies, and as of 2003 started career as a judge. Prior to the election as the new Ombudsman, Mr. Pašalić was President of Appellate Misdemeanor Court.
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2024-09-06
CY’s Committee on Social Welfare and Environment Hygiene Affairs Conducts Circuit Supervision at Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
The Committee on Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Affairs of the Control Yuan conducted a site visit at the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control on July 19, 2024. The inspection, centered on post-pandemic disease prevention, policy formulation, and the establishment of an infectious disease prevention network, aimed to protect the public’s health rights and interests.
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2019-01-10
Introducing the newly appointed Ombudsman
The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency, Brigadier Retired Julius Maada Bio, appointed on the 23th October 2018 the Lawyer Mr. Leon Jenkins-Johnston as the New Ombudsman of the Republic of Sierra Leone.
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2017-05-08
Arrival of refugees
In view of the arrival of thousands and thousands of people coming from war-torn countries such as Syria and from other places for reasons of persecutions, political or religious ideas, warring among ethnic groups or hunger, in September 2015, the European Union assigned its Member States to relocate 170,000 individuals arriving in Italy and Greece.
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2020-06-29
Report 2019 - more than 51,000 requests and 9,800 new instructed processes
In 2019, the Ombudsman received 51,313 requests through the various channels available to citizens (6.6% more than in 2018), and 9823 complaint procedures were opened, representing an increase of 5% in relation to 2018. Compared with 2017, the growth in new complaint procedures is 26%; taking 2016 as a reference, the increase is 42%.
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2015-10-02
OGP Webinar : “Can citizen empowerment improve people’s lives? Evidence from the Transparency for Development program”
The webinar will take place on Tuesday, October 6th, 2015, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EST
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2016-09-14
Augustine Makgonatsotlhe appointed as new Ombudsman of the Republic
The newly appointed Ombudsman of the Republic of Botswana, Mr Augustine Ntshomane Makgonatsotlhe, assumed his position on 1 June 2016. Botswana Makgonatsotlhe is a distinguished legal practitioner and public officer who has extensive experience in the field of human rights.
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2017-12-04
Investigation into the management of maintenance claims against public housing tenant
As a result of a number of complaints to the Ombudsman and wider community concern, the Ombudsman conducted an investigation into the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Housing's processes for determining and pursuing maintenance debts against public housing tenants. The investigation found that many public housing tenants were charged thousands of dollars for the repair of damaged public housing, even when there was no evidence they caused the damage. The investigation also found that the department was wasting public resources and breaching its responsibility as a Model Litigant by making unreasonable demands for cost recovery and pursing claims to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
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2021-05-14
Online press conference – The Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB) presented their 2020 annual report
The members of the Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB), Mr Bernhard Achitz, Mr Walter Rosenkranz and Mr Werner Amon presented on the basis of the annual report the AOB’s investigation results from 2020 and gave, on the basis of some selected complaints and their own perceptions, an insight into the work of the monitoring and human rights institution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the AOB published its annual report in three volumes for the first time. In addition to Volume 1 ‘Monitoring of public administration’ and Volume 2 ‘Preventive human rights monitoring’, Volume 3 ‘Covid-19’ covers all those observations related to the 2020 Covid-19 measures.
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2016-06-24
Ground Breaking Northern Ireland Project brings Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissioners to Belfast
Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissioners from around the World gathered in Belfast last month to attend a two-day Conference jointly hosted by the Office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NISPO) and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).
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2013-11-26
Commissioner on social care workers’ wage system
In the recent months the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights has received several complaints concerning the wage system of social care workers. The complaints referred to the fact that, as far as remuneration is concerned, social care workers are not treated in the same way as those working in the healthcare system and licenced by the Office of Health Authorisation and Administrative Procedures.
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2020-07-01
Ontario Ombudsman reports on 2019-2020 – “A year like no other”
Releasing his latest Annual Report, Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé reflected on the stunning and ongoing challenges faced by the province’s public sector due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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2021-05-20
2020 Annual Report of the CCAC of Macao published in Official Gazette
The 2020 Annual Report of the Commission Against Corruption of Macao was published in the Official Gazette of the Macao Special Administrative Region on 20 May 2021. In 2020, under the pandemic, the CCAC still carried out the actions in the areas of anti-corruption, ombudsman and promotion and education in a pragmatic and orderly way in accordance with its plan.
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2024-11-15
Public Protector addresses final year law students at the University of the Witwatersrand
Public Protector Adv. Kholeka Gcaleka recently addressed final year law students at the University of the Witwatersrand. Kindly click here to read Adv. Gcaleka’s speech.
