At the start of the academic year and once the placement procedure that applied the new regime of mobility due to illness of teachers has been completed, the Ombudsman addressed an initial appraisal of this regime to the Minister of Education, requesting that he issue a statement, specifically in relation to the convenience of its integration within a suitable general…
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, received, on 25 October, the Parliamentary Secretary of State of the Federal Ministry of Justice of Germany, Benjamin Strasser, accompanied by the Head of Division for Coordination and Cooperation Affairs within the European Union, Lutz Roth, and the Minister Counsellor of the German Embassy, Ludwig Blaurock. During the meeting, issues related to the role of…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the solemn session to commemorate the approval of the Constitution of 1822. The session took place on 23 September, in the Assembly of the Republic, in the scope of the Commemorations of the Bicentennial of Constitutionalism.
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the solemn ceremony of the commemorations of the 112th anniversary of the implementation of the Republic, that took place in Praça do Município, in Lisbon.
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia AMARAL, participated on 21 October in the second and last day of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council. The meeting took place in Gaia under the theme “The Independence of the Judicial Power”.
The Ombudsman was represented at the European Seminars on Access to Law, which were held at the Salão Nobre da Ordem dos Advogados, organised by the General Council of the Portuguese Bar Association and the Access to Law Institute. The Coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Ombudsman’s Office, Miguel Feldmann, participated in the session “The role of Lawyers…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was heard on 19 October, by the Committee of Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, in the scope of the new general appreciation of Bills 70/XV/1.ª (PSD), 79/XV/1.ª (CH), 100/XV/1.ª (PCP) and of the Bill no. 11/XV/1.ª (GOV), under appraisal by the Working Group – Metadata.
The Ombudsman’s Senior Citizens’ Hotline received 1,239 calls to date this year, with the greatest number of requests for assistance related to health (167). This data may confirm the inversion observed in 2021, when, for the first time in the 23 years of existence of this line dedicated to assisting senior citizens, health questions exceeded those related to social responses,…
The Ombudsman sent a recommendation for legislative alteration to the Minister of National Defence in order to revise the legal regime of Sickness Assistance to Armed Forces Military Personnel (ADM).To read the recommendation click here [in Portuguese only].
The Ombudsman was represented by the Coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism of the Ombudsman Office, Miguel Feldmann, at the Workshop on “Alternatives to Administrative Detention”, an initiative of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Migration Agency. The meeting, which took place in Lisbon on 29 September, aimed to analyse, from a legal and practical point of…