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The Deputy Ombudsman, Estrela Chaby, was present at the ceremony to present the Training Programme for 2024 organised by INA and to launch the INA Alumni Network, which took place on 27 June at Palácio Galveias, in Lisbon. INA proposes to hold about 200 courses for employees in public functions as part of the Training Programme for 2024. The INA…
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, participated as a speaker in the XI Lisbon Legal Forum, which took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon on 26-28 June 2023. The Ombudsperson presented a lecture in the panel on “Risks for the Rule of Law and Defence of Democracy”, in the scope of Thematic Axis 1 (“Democratic Rule…
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the 16th Congress organized by SIPE (Societas Iuris Publici Europaei), within the scope of its annual meeting, that took place in Lisbon, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, from 22 to 24 June 2023. The congress was dedicated to the theme “New Public Tasks in Times of Tension”…
The Deputy Ombudsman, Estrela Chaby, attended the closing conference of the CP4Europe Project, dedicated to the theme “Strengthening the national framework and action for child participation in Europe”, which took place on 15 June, in Lisbon. The CP4Europe Project is a joint project of the European Union and the Council of Europe that aims to promote children’s participation rights at…
On 10 June, the Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was present at the Military Ceremony of the official commemorations of the Day of Portugal, of Camões and of the Portuguese Communities, that took place at Avenida do Douro, in Peso da Régua. This year, the commemorations of the Day of Portugal, Camões and Portuguese Communities began in South Africa. In Portugal,…
The Ombudsman was represented by the Deputy Ombudsman, Ravi Afonso Pereira, at the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra’s 31st anniversary celebrations. The Deputy Ombudsman attended a concert performed by the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, which took place in the Grande Auditório of the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, on 10 June.
The Ombudsperson, Maria Lúcia Amaral, was part of the jury of the Lisbon University Prize that, on 5 June 2023, decided to award the 2021 prize to Prof. Maria do Carmo Salazar Velez Roque da Fonseca, in recognition of her exceptional career as a scientist, with relevant contributions in the field of molecular medicine and public participation in the promotion…
The Ombudsman’s Office participated in a continuous training session for magistrates on “The status of the prisoner as the subject of sentence execution”, which was held at the Judicial Studies Centre, in Lisbon, on 2 June. The Coordinator of the National Preventive Mechanism, Miguel Feldmann, presented the module “Monitoring the prison system – challenges of the daily life of inmates”.…
The Ombudsman received a response to Recommendation no. 1/B/2023, addressed to the Government on 23 March, in relation to the regime of protection and mobility in the event of illness of teaching staff. In relation to the aspects to be reviewed in the regime that currently regulates this mobility competition, the Government informs that the evaluation of its application will…