Due to the resolution adopted by the Supreme Court consisting of seven judges at the end of January 2016 on application from the Commissioner for Human Rights, the defendant who has been acquitted from one or more charges and convicted on the other charges (or a convicted person with respect to whom the proceeding has been partially discontinued) will not incur the financial effects of an unfounded charge and will be reimbursed with the remuneration of a defence council of his own choosing. To date, some Polish courts have refused to reimburse these expenditures.

Reunión sobre la aplicación del Protocolo marco de actuación en casos de abusos a niños 

Rafael Ribó concluye que en este caso no se activó el Protocolo marco

Es imprescindible el compromiso y la voluntad de todas las administraciones e instituciones de aplicar los instrumentos del Protocolo para que éste sea eficaz

“Devuélveles la sonrisa” es el nombre del proyecto de la Fundación aragonesa Sigo Adelante, que ha traspasado las fronteras de la Comunidad Autónoma y ha unido a Aragón con Pakistán con el objetivo de ayudar a mujeres víctimas de ataques con ácido y secuelas graves de quemaduras, mediante la intervención quirúrgica gratuita y el posterior apoyo psicológico.

In the past quarter, the Defender exercised her power under the Public Defender of Rights Act and approached the Government with the findings she obtained in systematic visits of nine facilities providing their clients, aside from accommodation and meals, with services identical in terms of content to social care services, without having obtained the necessary authorisation under Section 78 et seq. of Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, as amended. The Defender found ill-treatment and violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, respectively, of the accommodated persons in all the visited unregistered residential social services facilities. Some of the findings were so alarming that the Defender reported them to the prosecuting bodies.

We laid 61 decision summaries before the Scottish Parliament today and one full public report about the NHS.