The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the award ceremony for the António Champalimaud Vision Prize, which in its 2022 edition recognised Gerrit Melles (Netherlands) and Claes Dohlman (Sweden) for breaking new ground in the research and treatment of corneal diseases by restoring sight to millions of people and preventing others from going blind in the future.
On 10 December the international community celebrates International Human Rights Day, marking the moment when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Constituting a civilizational milestone in our collective history, the Declaration brought to the legal, social and cultural level the strong idea that all human beings are holders of inalienable rights, regardless…
Representing the Portuguese Ombudsman, the adviser Carla Vicente participated, on 31 October, in a Seminar on Responsible Gaming, organized by the Gaming Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. The Seminar took place in the context of the procedure underway, in Brazil, to regulate the gaming market, and the topic was addressed in an interdisciplinary manner, with the presence 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 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…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was received in audience by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, on July 21, at 11:00 am, following the delivery of the Annual Activity Report and the Report of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture regarding 2021. Learn more here.
The Ombudsman was represented in the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the Ombudsman of Mozambique by the coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism Miguel Feldmann. The event was marked by an international conference, held on May 26, and an institutional visit to the Ombudsman’s new facilities in Maputo.