The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, took part as a speaker in the opening session of the final event of the project “Integrating Human Rights in Administrative Detention Centres”, organised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which took place in the Congress Area of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 30 November. The event marked the end of the…
The Ombudsman has submitted a request to the Constitutional Court for a declaration of unconstitutionality, with general binding force, of rules in force in the Autonomous Region of Madeira that limit the activity of individual passenger transport in uncharacterised vehicles, known by the acronym TVDE. At present, TVDE activity in the Autonomous Region of Madeira is subject to a numerus…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received the Ukrainian Ambassador to Portugal, Maryna Mykhailenko, on 28 November, at the first hearing held in the Ombudsman’s new premises.
On the eve of its half-century anniversary, on 15 November the Ombudsman has moved its headquarters from Rua do Pau de Bandeira, in the residential neighbourhood of Lapa, to Palácio Vilalva, located between Rua Marquês de Fronteira and Largo de São Sebastião da Pedreira, in one of Lisbon’s central hubs. This fulfils a long-standing ambition to place the state institution…
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, took part in the meeting of the Council of State held on 9 November 2023 at the Palácio de Belém in Lisbon. The Council of State was convened under Article 145 a) and e) of the Constitution – under which this consultative body is responsible for “pronouncing on the dissolution of the Assembly of the…
The Ombudsman, as a National Human Rights Institution and as a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), took part in the 14th International Conference of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 6 to 8 November 2023. The aim of GANHRI’s international conferences is to develop and promote co-operation between national human rights…
The Ombudsman has submitted a request to the Constitutional Court for a declaration of unconstitutionality, with general binding force, of rules contained in Law no. 13/2023, of 3 April, which amended the Labour Code and related legislation “within the scope of the decent work agenda”. The rules in question are those contained in Article 10(3) of the Labour Code, which…
The Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, took part in the meeting of the network of national contact points on the rule of law, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 25 October 2023, and gave a presentation on the results of the recent reorganisation of the Ombudsman’s Office. You can find out more about this network here.
The Ombudsman was represented by the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, at the closing session of the Congress organised by the Human Rights Commission of the Portuguese Bar Association (CDHOA) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on the theme of “Migrants’ Rights in Detention”. The congress took place on 19 and 20 October at the Salão Nobre of the…
The Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, and the team of the National Preventive Mechanism (MNP) met with the General Commander of the National Republican Guard (GNR) on 17 October 2023, at the General Command’s premises in the Carmo Quartel in Lisbon. The meeting served the dual purpose of explaining how the MNP carries out its preventive action and of considering…