The public presentation of the study on “Access to the Regional Health System – Autonomous Region of the Azores” [in Portuguese only], conducted by Professor Piedade Lalanda, will take place on 15 October, at 10.30am, in the Aula Magna of the University of the Azores. Promoted by the Ombudsman Office, under the scope of the DEMOS Project, the presentation of…
The Ombudsman’s Office is publishing a small collection entitled “Pandemic Notebooks”, three studies on the extraordinary times we live in. The first focuses on the general topic of education and collects information that was obtained during the first phase of suspension of classroom classes that took place in 2020. The second focuses on homelessness and covers roughly the same period…
With the support of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the New Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment (NOVA BHRE) is organising, in partnership with the Portuguese Ombudsman, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum and NOVA 4 The Globe, a series of online conferences…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, spoke at the opening session of the 33rd Social Pastoral Meeting, which will take place in Fatima from October 22 to 24, under the motto “Bringing the peripheries to the center”. To access the program of the Meeting, inaugurated by the president of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, D. Manuel Clemente, click here. To read the…
The Ombudsman carried out a training session for the Mozambican Ombudsman, who sent a team of five persons to Lisbon from 7 to 11 October. Organized at the request of the Mozambican Ombudsman, Isaque Chande, the action focused on the methods and procedures for collecting and processing information for the production of reports and other disclosure documents on the action…
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.
The Ombudsman participated in the IV Conference organized by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia on "Longevity and Neurodegenerative Diseases" and the importance of the humanization of the medical act, that took place in Lisbon on June 4. Maria Lúcia Amaral intervened in the panel that addressed "Ethics and Rights" from the perspective of people who are especially vulnerable and /…
As part of the commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Office of the Ombudsman – which in Portugal is the National Human Rights Institution – wrote an annotated version, illustrating each of the rights enshrined in it with cases and problems that The Ombudsman has been called upon to solve the problem over…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received this afternoon Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The meeting addressed the concerns and recommendations that the Ombudsman, as National Human Rights Institution, has recently presented in the scope of the Universal Periodic Review. As part of this process, which this year focuses on Portugal, the 193 UN member countries…
The Deputy Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, participates in the debate "Gender Violence?" that takes place on April 10 in the cycle of conferences on gender equality and domestic violence promoted by the Commission for Gender Equality and Domestic Violence of the Order of Lawyers (OA). Teresa Anjinho speeks on the first panel: "Is there a need to talk about Gender Violence?"