The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was heard on June 19 at 11:00 am in the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees on the Activities Report of 2018 and the report on the activity carried out by the Ombudsman as a National Mechanism Prevention of Torture. To learn more, click here. To listen to the audition, click here.
Deputy Ombudsman Joaquim Pedro Cardoso da Costa was in Cairo as a "keynote speaker" to talk about the role played by the Ombudsman of Portugal in the process of compensation for the seriously injured and the relatives of the mortal victims of the great fires of the summer of 2017, where 115 people died. The intervention took place in the…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received a delegation from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, which is preparing a report on the respect of the principles of the European Charter of Local Self-Government by the Member States of this organization. The Charter was ratified by Portugal in 1990.
