Ombudsman

The Ombudsman formulated an exception of unconstitutionality regarding OUG (Government Emergency Ordinance) no. 37/2021 for amending and supplementing the Labour Code, on the grounds that it violates the right to the labour social protection measures guaranteed by the Constitution. "The provisions of point 1 of the sole article of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 37/2021 amend art.

An elementary school student who won a degree in international painting competitions applied to the Ombudsman Institution when the prizes she was supposed to receive from the Turkish Education Ministry were not given.

Aleyna Okuyucu living in the Black Sea province of Samsun won first and third place in two different international painting competitions held in 2017 and 2019.

Ljubljana – Free, plural and independent media are a fundamental ingredient of democracies, Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina said in his World Press Freedom Day message. “Independent media and public services are the basis of democratic societies, so they must not be hostage in the hands of election winners,” he wrote on Monday.

Bulgarian ombudsman Diana Kovacheva sent a letter to the National Assembly, reminding the deputies that there are important issues within their competence that need to be resolved urgently.

Poland's independent human rights commissioner will be forced to leave office following a ruling on Thursday by the government-controlled Constitutional Tribunal that it is unconstitutional for him to remain in his post after his term of office has expired.

The US State Department's 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which was published on Tuesday, warned that countries in the Balkans and south-east Europe have continuing problems with media freedom, censorship and violence against journalists, while officials are not being sanctioned for rights violations.

Ombudsperson Renate Weber is asking Prime Minister Florin Citu to state the reasons why the 20 decisions adopted by the National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) since the beginning of the year have not been published in the Official Journal.

The resulting riots refocused attention on a controversial decision to resurrect a notorious motorized police brigade and triggered more talk of strengthening a mechanism to monitor police behaviour. But experts say its effectiveness depends on the readiness of those at the top to act.

Ljubljana – Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina has voiced criticism over the procedure in which the Environment and Spatial Planning Ministry wants to change the environmental protection act. The ministry’s actions are not in line with modern democratic standards, which has recently become an established modus operandi of the ministry, the ombudsman says.

Poland's Supreme Court Judge Malgorzata Manowska speaks during the sixth day of the sitting of the Supreme Court judges in Warsaw, Poland, 23 May 2020. EPA-EFE/TOMASZ GZELL