Following visits to the country’s Educational Centers (EC), the Ombudsman, acting as head of the National Prevention Mechanism (NPM), made a recommendation in February 2019 to the Directorate General for Reinsertion and Prison Services (DGRSP) to overcome several identified shortcomings. The recommendation of the Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, urged the DGRSP to install, in articulation with the health authorities, still…
The Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises will convene a two-day global consultation on the role of national human rights institutions in facilitating access to remedy for business-related human rights abuses. The Deputy Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, will take part in that global consultation that takes place on 10-11 October at Palais…
The Ombudsman, acting as head of the National Mechanism for the Prevention (MNP) of Torture and Mistreatment, addressed a recommendation to the Immigrants and Borders Service (SEF) to avoid situations of excessive isolation of persons detained in temporary installation facilities in airports, while awaiting the decision to enter the country. The Ombudsman’s recommendation calls on the SEF to establish, after…
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has just published its recommendations following the conclusion of the assessment cycle on compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Portugal. The Ombudsman hopes that the Recommendations approved by the Committee will provide an incentive for the design of strategies and the implementation of actions to achieve…
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Deputy Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho attends the high-level conference organized by the Council of Europe on the theme ‘"On the Road to Effective Equality: New responses to racism and intolerance needed?" The conference will take place on 26 and 27 September in Paris, the capital of the country currently holding the Presidency of the Council of Europe, signaling the 25th anniversary…
The Ombudsman participated on September 20 at the 42nd Session of the Human Rights Council – which took place in Geneva from 9 to 27 – where the report of the Universal Periodic Examination of Human Rights to Portugal was discussed and adopted. Represented by Adviser to the Cabinet Ricardo Carvalho, the position of this State body focused on the…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, welcomes the change in the income tax regime from previous years. The amendment to article 74 of the IRS Code, enshrined in Law No. 119/2019, published this week in Diário da República, is in line with what has been claimed by the Ombudsman for over a decade. Since 2005, this state body has received more…
A team from the Ombudsman traveled to the city of Praia on Santiago Island to share their experience in handling complaints and allegations about human rights violations with the staff of the National Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship. – CNDHC. The initiative took place at the CNDHC premises on September 16, 17 and 18 and was attended by technicians,…
A team from the Ombudsman is taking part in a training session on human rights, particularly in the context of migratory flows, in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. On the sidelines of this action promoted under the Demos project, the Ombudsman team, made up of Adviser to the Cabinet Ana Rita Gil and Coordinator João Portugal, was welcomed by the…