The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, attended the Solemn Session to Open the 2023 Judicial Year, held on 10 January 2023, in the Main Hall of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the investiture ceremony of the President of the Bar Association, Fernanda de Almeida Pinheiro. The inauguration of the President of the Bar Association, members of the General Council and Presidents and members of the Superior and Fiscal Councils of the Bar Association for the three-year period 2023-2025, took place on 9 January,…
The Ombudsman was represented by the Coordinator of the Ombudsman Office, Elsa Dias, at the presentation session of the study “Guidelines on Shared Micromobility Regulation”, that took place at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon, on 5 January 2023. The study was authored by the Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes (AMT) and may be consulted here.
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the ceremony to award the 2020 University of Lisbon Prize, which took place in the Aula Magna of the Rectory of the University of Lisbon, on 5 January 2023, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres. The Ombudsman integrated the jury that deliberated the choice of the awardee. The University…
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…
The Ombudsman addressed a recommendation to Lisbon City Council so that urgent measures are adopted to guarantee universal access to the Alcântara underground pedestrian passage. The recommendation was formulated after numerous complaints were received regarding the lack of accessibility and the deficient conditions of salubriousness, safety and hygiene of the underground pedestrian passage that serves the Alcântara-Mar railway station and…
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…
The Ombudsman welcomes the intention communicated to her by the Executive Council of the Social Security Institute (ISS) to extend the validity of the informal carers ID card to one year. The current period of validity of the card is only three months, and it is true that among the approximately 11,000 informal carers already recognised, there are those who…
The Ombudsman informed the Secretary of State for Health on receipt of various complaints from citizens holding medical certificates for multiple disabilities (AMIM) whose validity had expired on 31st December 2022, despite having requested re-examination of their situation in due time. The situation is due to the persistent delay in scheduling a medical committee, and covers people who had requested…
In view of the constraints resulting from the pandemic period, the Ombudsman questioned the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs about the need to extend, also for individual taxpayers, the deadline for reinvestment of the sale value of residential property, in the purchase, construction or improvement of another property for the same purpose, without losing the benefit of exclusion from…
