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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, 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.
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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, 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 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…
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, 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.