The dire humanitarian situation of a group of people stuck for many days at the Polish-Belarussian border is alarming. I understand that this situation is the result of attempts by Belarus to...

Nel corso della seduta del 13 agosto 2021, il Difensore civico della Regione autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Enrico Formento Dojot, nonchè Presidente del Coordinamento nazionale dei Difensori civici delle Regioni e delle Province autonome di Trento e Bolzano, è stato nominato componente del Consiglio direttivo dell'Europaisches Ombudsman-Institut (EOI)...

The humanitarian and human rights crisis in Afghanistan is causing grave concern across the world, especially the life-threatening situation many women and children are in, as well as many human rights defenders...

On Friday, August 20, the President of Latvia Egils Levits presented the Order of the Three Stars to the Ombudsman Juris Jansons for meritorious service to Latvia at a solemn ceremony at Riga Castle...

In a letter to the Prime Minister of Lithuania published today, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, calls for the response to migration-related challenges to be fully compliant with the country’s human rights obligations, in particular by ensuring fair asylum procedures and...