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International Day of Support for Victims of Torture: “We must not leave the anonymous victims in the shadows”
Today’s International Day of Support for Victims of Torture offers us one more opportunity to reaffirm the current relevance of the problem and the need to continue the fight against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, thus contributing to not to leave in the penumbra the anonymous victims that deserve our support. Their right to live…
2019-06-25
Content type: News
Human rights. Ombudsman of Portugal and Turkey complete twinnig program
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, receives her Turkish counterpart, Seref Malkoç, this week in Lisbon for a high-level study visit marking the closure of the training program that has been developed since November 2018 by the Portuguese Ombudsman in the framework of an initiative of the European Union. This last study session includes a visit to the Ombudsman’s Office,…
2019-06-24
Content type: Other Decisions
Progressão na carreira docente. Aquisição de outras habilitações. Regime transitório do Decreto-Lei n.º 15/2007, de 19.1.
Entity addressed: : Diretora-Geral da Administração Escolar
Type: Chamada de atenção
2019-06-21
Content type: News
Report 2018. Ombudsman heard in Parliament on 19 June at 11:00 a.m.
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.
2019-06-19
Content type: News
June 18 – Ombusdman receives Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received a delegation from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, which is preparing a report on the respect of the principles of the European Charter of Local Self-Government by the Member States of this organization. The Charter was ratified by Portugal in 1990.
2019-06-19
Content type: News
Borba. Ombudsman completes compensation proceedings
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, concluded the proceedings for compensation to the relatives and heirs of the five mortal victims of the collapse of the Municipal Road 255, which took place on November 19, 2018, in the borough of Borba. There were 19 applicants who submitted compensation claims to this state body. They all accepted the proposals put forward by…
2019-06-07
Content type: News
Ombudsman marks Children’s Day
The promotion and defense of the rights of the child are fundamental tasks of the State and of the community, being assumed not only as ethical duties, but also as obligations that have already reached the juridical level, based on national and international instruments. Therefore, celebrating the day of the child implies to affirm its singularity as a holder of…
2019-05-31
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Report 2018: More than 48,000 requests and 9300 new processes. Complaints about Social Security lead, with a rise of 39%
In 2018, the Ombudsman’s Office received a total of 48,129 requests through the various channels available to citizens, including 36,111 entries of complaints and other communications. During the year, 9338 new procedures were instituted, five of them from the Ombudsman’s initiative, which translates into an increase in the handling of complaints of 20% over the previous year. Activity indicators are…
2019-05-30
Content type: News
Protection of Minorities. Ombudsman receives Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received a delegation of experts from the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe for the Protection of National Minorities, within the framework of the first follow-up visit of this body to Portugal. The meeting dealt with the situation of human rights and cases of discrimination. In Portugal, the Ombudsman is also a National Human…
2019-05-29
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Raising awareness of the Ombudsman in the outermost regions
The DEMOS Project, integrated in the INTERREG 2014-2020 programme and financed by the European Regional Development Fund FEDER, aims to foster activities aimed at increasing the levels of development and socioeconomic integration of the outermost regions of Portugal and Spain, composed of the archipelagos of Madeira, the Azores and the Canary Islands. Within the scope of the Ombudsman’s Office participation…
2019-05-02
