IOI Ombudsman News 29/2024
Date of article: 26/07/2024
Daily News of: 26/07/2024
Country: 
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Author: International Ombudsman Institute
Article language: en
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Fri, 26 July 2024 Ombudsman News 29/2024 |
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SINT MAARTEN | Ombudsman publishes 2023 Year ReportThe Ombudsman of Sint Maarten recently published the 2023-year report. In 2023 there were a total of 367 complaints handled of which 43 resulted in a report by the Ombudsman.
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SERBIA | Belgrade Platform for Promotion and Protection of the EnvironmentThe Belgrade Platform for Promotion and Protection of the Environment was established following the International Conference on the Role of Ombudspersons in Environmental Protection held on 13 and 14 June 2024 in Belgrade, organized by the Protector of Citizens of the Republic of Serbia, supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia.
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MALAWI | Office of the Ombudsman embarks on mobile accountability clinicsThe Office of the Ombudsman in Malawi has taken to Kasungu for two-week Mobile Accountability Clinics. The clinics are a proactive mechanism that the Office of the Ombudsman uses to take the Office to the people reaching the heart of communities in the rural areas or areas that are far from the main office.
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MÉXICO | Necesarias políticas específicas para garantizar el ejercicio de los derechos de las Mujeres AfrodescendientesLa Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México (CDHCM) hace eco de las líneas estratégicas signadas en el Decenio Internacional de los Afrodescendientes (Reconocimiento, Justicia y Desarrollo); y el énfasis que se pone en que estas deben contemplar específicamente líneas para las mujeres.
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CANADA | Toronto’s Ombudsman reports on first year of office’s new Housing Unit, underscores human right to housingOn 19 July 2024, Toronto’s Ombudsman Kwame Addo released an update on the work his office’s new Housing Unit has done during its first year of operation. Established in July of 2023, the Housing Unit at Ombudsman Toronto investigates and reviews the planning and delivery of the City of Toronto’s housing services, policies, and programs to make sure they are fair and uphold Torontonians’ human right to adequate housing.
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EUROPE | Ombudsman regrets Commission approach to access to documents request concerning EU legislation on combatting child sexual abuseThe European Ombudsman strongly regrets the European Commission’s refusal to follow her recommendation to give greater public access to four documents related to the drawing up of proposed legislation to combat child sexual abuse.
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BAHRAIN | Signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership between the Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior and the Institution of the Mediator of the Kingdom of MoroccoThe Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Bahrain signed a memorandum of cooperation and partnership with the Mediator of the Kingdom of Morocco, on the sidelines of the two institutions’ participation in the eleventh meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ombudsman Association of Member Countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OICOA), which was held in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.
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UK | Review of housing register applications following Ombudsman investigationLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets has agreed to review the way it allocates properties after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman uncovered it had a long backlog in processing applications to join its housing register. The discovery came when the Ombudsman investigated how the council handled an application from a woman who was resident in its area.
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PAKISTAN | Ombudsman Sindh holds the follow-up session with 10 selected students of Hamdard University as Ambassadors for his instituteMuhammad Sohail Rajput, the Ombudsman Sindh, presided the follow-up session of the Brand Ambassador Program on 22 July 2024 at the Secretariat of the Provincial Ombudsman Sindh with the 10 selected students as Ambassadors for Ombudsman Sindh from the Hamdard University.
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HUNGARY | Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Hosts European Commission ExpertsThe Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary hosted the experts of the European Commission monitoring the management of the external Schengen borders of the EU in his Office on 4 June 2024.
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CANADA | Eight years after committing to implement minimum international standards for prison inspections, British Columbia still has not done soBritish Columbia’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released an investigative update on 22 July 2024 assessing government’s progress implementing the sole remaining recommendation from his office’s 2016 report aimed at improving how BC’s ten correctional centres are inspected.
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ESPAÑA | Interior modifica el protocolo de las ruedas de reconocimiento a instancia del SíndicDos jóvenes fueron abordados por la calle por su perfil racial para hacer de figurantes en una rueda de reconocimiento. El Síndic de Greuges de Catalunya concluyó que la actuación policial no tenía suficientes garantías jurídicas y pidió una revisión.
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