El síndic de Greuges, Ángel Luna, ha comparecido hoy ante la Comisión de Peticiones de Les Corts para defender los informes anuales correspondientes a los ejercicios 2019 y 2020.

Durante la comparecencia, que se ha cebrado en el Hemiciclo de la cámara, el síndic ha estado acompañado por la adjunta primera, Concha Bru, y el adjunto segundo, Carlos Castillo.

Consulta los informes del Síndic:

• Informe anual 2019
• Informe anual 2020

• Support for human rights systems and defenders
• National human rights systems and bodies
• Civil society

When: 03 November 2021 - 05 November 2021

External event

FRA’s Director will visit Ireland from 3-5 November.

Over the course of the visit, he will meet representatives from various national authorities, human rights institutions and civil society.

The aim is to further promote FRA’s work and explore opportunities for the Agency to provide national authorities and organisations with fundamental rights assistance and expertise.

Link: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-10/cp210190en.pdf

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Court of Justice of the European Union

PRESS RELEASE No 190/21

Luxembourg, 26 October 2021

Judgment in Case C-109/20 PL Holdings

EU law prohibits the conclusion by a Member State of an arbitration agreement with identical content to an invalid arbitration clause in a bilateral investment treaty between Member States

The national court is therefore obliged to set aside an arbitral award made on the basis of such an arbitration agreement.

In 2013, the voting rights of PL Holdings, a company incorporated under Luxembourg law, attached to shares it owned in a Polish bank were suspended, and it was forced to sell those shares. PL Holdings disagreed with the decision requiring it to do so, which had been taken by the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (Polish Financial Supervision Authority), and decided to initiate arbitration proceedings against Poland. To that end, PL Holdings, relying on the bilateral investment treaty concluded in 1987 between Belgium and Luxembourg, on the one hand, and Poland, on the other. (...)

According to the annual Government Report on the Operation of the State and County Prisons and Juvenile Correctional Institutions, during the course of 2020 nine inmate deaths were recorded in the entire prison system. This makes media reports citing eight inmate deaths in the Zagreb County Prison and Zagreb County Prison’s Diagnostic Unit in the first nine months of this year all the more concerning and requires urgent measures to determine the causes of these events as well as the possible errors within the prison system with a view of securing the safety of all persons deprived of their liberty.

Following the news of a death of a Zagreb County Prison inmate in January of 2021, Ombudswoman instigated an investigation procedure and requested the Prison’s statement on the case. Additional statements were requested in March, May and September, i.e., after each new inmate death in that institution. The information received on the cases so far do not eliminate all suspicion of errors. However, the final conclusion can be reached only after we have received and analyzed all of the relevant statements and documentation requested from the Zagreb County Prison and the Ministry of Justice ‘s Central Office of the Prison System and Probation Directorate.

That being said, generally speaking, the Zagreb County Prison’s accommodation conditions do not meet the standards, especially when it comes to its spatial capacities and overcrowding. Thus, we issued several warnings calling on the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration to uphold the 2009 Constitutional Court decision ordering the Government of the Republic of Croatia to adjust the Zagreb County Prisons’ accommodation capacities within the time-period of no more than five years. The same decision states that the current conditions violate the inmate’s constitutional right to humane treatment and to protection of dignity. In several of our reports following the visits to the Zagreb County Prison of our officers performing the duties of the National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Human or degrading Treatment or Punishment we warned about the substandard accommodation conditions, made even worse by the increasing overcrowding. Additionally, in our annual reports to the Croatian Parliament we regularly point to the lack of a sufficient number of officers in penal institutions and the need to amend this problem so as to increase the level of protection of the human rights of the persons deprived of their liberty and to enhance security levels in the penal institutions. The current COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the existing problems, such as the lack of medical personnel in the prison system.

Finally, deaths in the prison systems do occur at times. However, their increased number in a short period of time in one and the same location calls for a quick and efficient reaction. If, after the conducted investigation procedure, we find any irregularities, we will address our findings and recommendations to the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration so that the potential irregularities could be eliminated and steps taken so as to achieve safety and respect for human rights of all persons deprived of their liberty.

Vitoria-Gasteiz

Una ciudadana solicitó la intervención del Ararteko con motivo de su disconformidad con la designación de las personas que componen la Comisión Técnica del Plan de Protección Civil de Euskadi (LABI), por entender que no se ajustaba al principio de representación equilibrada de mujeres y hombres.

La reclamante se había dirigido al Gobierno Vasco, a través de Zuzenean, exponiendo su preocupación por el hecho de que el órgano en cuestión no tuviera una representación equilibrada de ambos sexos. La respuesta se limitaba a señalar que se agradecían sus comentarios y sugerencias, y que éstos se tendrían en cuenta, sin otra precisión ni detalle.

Tras solicitar información, Lehendakaritza explicaba en su respuesta al Ararteko los condicionantes que determinan la composición de la citada comisión, entre los cuales destaca el hecho de que se compone de titulares de otros órganos, dentro del ámbito profesional de la epidemiología, el cual "tiene su propia composición y características y no viene determinada por el equilibrio entre hombres y mujeres". Así mismo, detallaba las últimas medidas tomadas para avanzar hacia una representación equilibrada de mujeres y hombres.

El Ararteko reconoce el esfuerzo llevado a cabo y las medidas tomadas por el Gobierno Vasco durante la vigencia de la emergencia sanitaria, para aproximarse a una representación equilibrada de mujeres y hombres en el LABI, pese a las dificultades objetivas derivadas de la configuración de este organismo, compuesto por personas procedentes de otros organismos, con competencias especializadas en la materia.

No obstante, consideramos que existe un margen de actuación para la designación de estas personas, por lo que el Ararteko anima al Gobierno Vasco a continuar con el esfuerzo emprendido hasta lograr de manera efectiva que el principio de representación equilibrada sea una realidad, también en la composición de la Comisión Científico-Técnica del LABI u otras instancias de la misma naturaleza que se puedan establecer en el futuro.

Por ello, el Ararteko recomienda a la Presidencia del Gobierno Vasco que se asegure que, en el futuro, la composición de la Comisión Científico-Técnica del LABI o de otras instancias de la misma naturaleza que se puedan establecer alcance, como mínimo, un 40% de ambos sexos.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, 25 de octubre de 2021

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