PRESS

The Office of the Ombudsman has presented at the Parliament Registry a summary of the first six months of the year, during which time a total of 8,970 courses of action were taken, 8,462 of which were complaints by members of the public, 494 own-initiative inquiries and 14 unconstitutionality appeal petitions. Most of the complaints […]

The Office of the Ombudsman has presented the report “Asylum in Spain: international protection and the resources of the intake system” to the lower house of the Spanish Parliament. The report analyses the situation of the Spanish asylum system and makes 26 recommendations for improving the system of intake and integration of people seeking refuge in […]

The Institution has presented the sixth annual report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) which made 62 visits to places of deprivation of liberty in 2015 and drafted 284 resolutions. The NPM inspected centres all over the country. The main aim of the visits, which were not announced beforehand, was to detect any deficiencies that […]

 The Defensora del Pueblo Ombudsman of Spain), Soledad Becerril officially opened the course “The rights of people with disability: inclusive education” which will be analysing the reality of that right in Spain. As the Ombudsman pointed out in her speech, the aim of the course is to “try to enhance our knowledge of how to […]