Ombudsperson participates in conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participates in a conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, promoted by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Dunja Mijatović. How to protect human rights, holistically and in all sectors of activity, in the face of accelerating reliance on digital technologies and automation based on access to personal data, and what…

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Deputy Ombudsman participates in the European Commission Report on the Rule of Law 2023

The Deputy Ombudsman participated via telematics in a meeting hosted by the European Commission on 13 February 2023, presenting the Ombudsman’s contributions to the Rule of Law Report 2023. In the context of preparing the edition of the (annual) Rule of Law Report, the European Commission consults various sources, including written contributions submitted by national authorities and entities, and conducts…

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Portuguese Ombudsperson participated in the General Assembly and Annual Conference of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

The Portuguese Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, and the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, participated in the General Assembly and Annual Conference of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), that took place between 14 and 16 March, in Geneva, on the occasion of the commemorations of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the…

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Ombudsman’s Office at the 28th anniversary of the Ombudsman of Uzbekistan

The Ombudsman Office was represented at the celebrations of the 28th anniversary of the Ombudsman of Uzbekistan by the coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism, Miguel Feldmann, through an online participation.To commemorate the date, an international conference was organized, in Samarkand, on 23 March, under the theme “Interaction and Cooperation for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”, which…

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TAIEX. Ombudsman’s Office participates in assistance program for Ombudsman-type Balkan countries

The Ombudsman’s Office is participating in the assistance program for Ombudsman-type institutions in the Balkan region, within the scope of the TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange) project, promoted by the European Commission in the perspective of their accession to the European Union (EU). The objective of this mission is to evaluate the independence and efficiency of the functioning of…

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National Preventive Mechanism carries out joint visits to places of detention with UK counterpart

The NPM – National Preventive Mechanism carried out joint visits to places of detention with its UK counterpart in November. The British NPM participated in the visits to the Detention Space at Lisbon Airport and to the Torres Novas prison establishment, and the Portuguese NPM team took part in the inspection of Garth prison, in Lancashire. The joint visits stem…

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Ombudsman at Seminar on Responsible Gaming

Representing the Portuguese Ombudsman, the adviser Carla Vicente participated, on 31 October, in a Seminar on Responsible Gaming, organized by the Gaming Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. The Seminar took place in the context of the procedure underway, in Brazil, to regulate the gaming market, and the topic was addressed in an interdisciplinary manner, with the presence of…

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Coordinator of the NPM at the opening session of the IOM Workshop on “Alternatives to Administrative Detention”

The Ombudsman was represented by the Coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Ombudsman Office, Miguel Feldmann, at the Workshop on “Alternatives to Administrative Detention”, an initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Migration Agency. The meeting, which took place in Lisbon on 29 September, aimed to analyse, from a legal and practical point of…

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Ombudsman participates in the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the IOI-International Ombudsman Institute

The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participated in the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the IOI-International Ombudsman Institute, held from 10 to 12 May, in New York. As part of the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the IOI and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), with a view to developing and implementing…

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