Ombudsman publishes Strategy 2025

Date of article: 25/08/2022

Daily News of: 25/08/2022

Country:  Ireland

Author: National Ombudsman of Ireland

Article language: en

The Office of the Ombudsman has published ‘Strategy 2025’ - its strategic plan covering the years 2022 to 2025. It follows a record year for the Ombudsman with over 4,000 complaints received in 2021 about public services provided by government departments, local authorities, the HSE and others.

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Öffentliche Anhörung des Petitionsausschusses des Landtages

Date of article: 25/08/2022

Daily News of: 25/08/2022

Country:  Germany - Niedersachsen

Author: Regional Committee on Petitions of Lower Saxony

Article language: de

Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2022, findet im Niedersächsischen Landtag eine öffentliche Anhörung des Petitionsausschusses statt (Am Markte 8/9, 30159 Hannover). Die Anhörung zur Petition 03210/89/18 „Hochschulangelegenheiten; a) Erhöhung der Zuschüsse für Studentenwerke, b) Abschaffung des Verwaltungskostenbeitrages für Studierende“ beginnt um 13:00 Uhr.

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Meeting with representatives of the US Embassy in Latvia

Date of article: 25/08/2022

Daily News of: 25/08/2022

Country:  Latvia

Author: Ombudsman of Latvia

Article language: en

Today, on August 17, Deputy Ombudsman Ineta Piļāne, Legal counsellors of the Civil and Political Rights Division Matīss Malojlo and Santa Tivaņenkova and Head of Communication and International Cooperation Division Ruta Siliņa met with representatives of the United States of America (USA) Embassy in Latvia – Sophia Ashley and Kristīne Antužāne.

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Latvian authorities should investigate human rights abuses at border with Belarus

Date of article: 25/08/2022

Daily News of: 25/08/2022

Country:  EUROPE

Author: Council of Europe

Article language: en

In a letter addressed to the Latvian Minister of the Interior published today, Commissioner Mijatović expresses her concern about the reports of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants having been violently prevented from entering Latvia from Belarus, held in inhumane conditions in the forest, denied access to the asylum procedure, and forced into signing voluntary return declarations...

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