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Content type: News
Free textbooks: Ombudsman recommends extending the measure to all students in need
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, addressed a Recommendation for legislative amendment to the Minister of Education to extend the free distribution of textbooks to all demonstrably disadvantaged students attending private or cooperative education. This Recommendation follows the receipt of more than a dozen complaints from citizens, associations and institutions that have challenged the constitutionality of the option to limit the…
2020-01-08
Content type: Recommendations
Gratuitidade dos manuais escolares. Promoção e proteção do direito à educação. Necessidade de complementos de apoio para os alunos comprovadamente carenciados que frequentem o ensino privado e cooperativo. (1/B/2020)
Entity addressed: Ministro da Educação
2020-01-02
Content type: Other Decisions
Imóveis sem dono conhecido. Nova lei. Acolhimento de sugestões do Provedor de Justiça
Imóveis sem dono conhecido: Provedora de Justiça saúda regulamentação
Entity addressed: Ministra de Estado e das Finanças
Type: Nota Informativa
2019-12-12
Content type: News
International Human Rights Day. Know who in Portugal defends them
Today is International Human Rights Day, when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which lists the basic rights for everyone. In Portugal, since 1999 Ombudsman has been, along with the role of defender of the citizen in the face of possible abuses of public administrations, the National Human Rights Institution, accredited…
2019-12-10
Content type: News
Deputy Ombudsman at the opening of the Seminar “Health, Human Rights and Humanitude”
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2019-12-04
Content type: News
2 December: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Today, December 2, is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, a date created by the United Nations (UN) in 2004 to mark the signing of the United Nations Convention on the Suppression of Trafficking of Persons and the Exploitation of Prostitution. 5″ />
2019-12-02
Content type: News
Citizen with Disabilities Line received 840 requests this year
Today is the International Day of People with Disabilities, a date promoted by the United Nations to raise awareness among civil society and political power on disability issues and to alert disabled citizens to their rights. The Ombudsman has a toll-free telephone line specifically for the problems of people with disabilities, providing information on their rights and support, particularly in…
2019-12-02
Content type: News
Deputy Ombudsman at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
The Deputy Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho participated in the Working Group on Business and Human Rights and attended the United Nations Forum on the same topic. Both initiatives took place in Geneva on 26 and 27 November. The Working Group on Human Rights Issues, Transnational Corporations and Other Companies was established by the Human Rights Council in 2011 (resolution 17/4). The…
2019-11-28
Content type: News
Gender violence and equality under debate at the 24th FIO Congress
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participates in the XXIV Congress and General Assembly of the Ibero-American Ombudsman Federation (FIO), which takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 26 to 28, 2019. Representatives of national human rights institutions from more than 20 Ibero-American countries are gathering around the theme of "gender violence and its impacts on equality", including…
2019-11-26
Content type: News
Deputy Ombudsman participates in the Mediation Conference “Present and Future” – DEMOS Project
5th November – The Deputy Ombudsman, Joaquim Pedro Cardoso da Costa, participated in the Mediation Conference “Present and Future” that took place in Tenerife, within the scope of the DEMOS Project. To consult the program click here.
2019-11-05
