The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participated in the International Conference Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Constitutional Court, dedicated to the topic “Constitutionalism in the 21st century”, that was held on 2 and 3 March, at the Academy of Sciences, in Lisbon. The Ombudsperson moderated the first panel of the Conference, dedicated to the topic “Future of Constitutionalism”, on 2…
The National Prevention Mechanism (NPM), represented by Filipe Doutel, was present at the event organised by the Jesuit Refugee Service for the official launch of the White Paper 2022: “Building integration: Where to start?”. The official launch of the book, which took place on 1 March 2023, in the Auditorium of the National Library of Portugal (Lisbon), included a discussion…
The Ombudsman was represented by the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, and by the Coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism, Miguel Feldmann, at the signature of a Protocol between the General Directorate of Reinsertion and Prison Services, the General Inspectorate of Internal Administration and the General Inspectorate of Justice Services. This Protocol aims to improve institutional communication in situations of…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present in the conference organized by the National Trade Union of the Portuguese Justices of the Peace, on 27 January, dedicated to the topic: “20 years of the Justices of the Peace”. The Ombudsman participated in the Closing Session of the conference.
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, delivered a Magna Lecture on “Studying Law, Being a Lawyer”, on 28th February 2023, in the Main Auditorium of the Law School of the University of Minho, in Braga, at the invitation of the Law Students’ Association of the University of Minho. The participation of the Ombudsman was part of the “Law Week” event, organized…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participated, on 27 February 2023, in the Opening Session of the Post-Graduate E-Learning Course on “Gender Policy: Equality and Non-Discrimination”, promoted by the Academy of Sciences in partnership with the University of Évora under the UNESCO Chair in Education and Science for Development and Human Well-Being (EDUWELL). The EDUWELL Chair is the result of a…
The Ombudsman was represented by the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, at the launch of the book “Women’s Human Rights”, that took place in the Assembly of the Republic on 23 February, 2023. The book “Women’s Human Rights” was organized by Margarida Martins, Mariana Cunha and Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque and published by the Portuguese Catholic University.
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the swearing-in of the members of the Entity for Transparency, which took place on 15 February 2023, in the Public Acts Room of the Constitutional Court (Palácio Ratton, Lisbon). The members of the Transparency Body were sworn in that day: the President, Ana Raquel Moniz; the Members, Mónica Maria Bessa Correia and…
The Ombudsman was represented by the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, at the ceremony organized by the Assembly of the Republic, on 1 February 2023, for the Evocation of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Deputy Ombudsman attended the concert Music in Theresienstdt, in the Senate Hall of the Assembly of the Republic, on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Evocation…
The Ombudsman participated as a speaker in the event promoted on 12 January 2023 by the Literary Guild on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Portuguese Constitution of 1822. Maria Lúcia Amaral delivered the lecture “On the 200 years of the Constitution of 1822”, moderated by the President of the Literary Guild’s Literary Council, Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins.