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On the International Migrants Day, the Office of the Ombudsman deems that Europe should come up with a common and coordinated response to the refugee crisis. The Institution points out that the control of migratory flows and the need for the people who wish to enter Europe to do so legally and in an orderly […]

The Defensor del Pueblo has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling restricting parental visitation by gender violence offenders. In November 2014, the institution recommended that an effort be made to abolish visits and communications with their children to gender violence offenders, in order to avoid risks. In its opinion, the best interests of the under-age child and his/her right to be listened […]

The Defensor del Pueblo received a visit from a delegation from the Office of the Ombudsman of Turkey, which visited Spain as part of a two-year Spanish-French “twinning” project funded by the European Union with a budget of over €1.5 million. Led by the Offices of the Ombudsman of Spain and France, the Defensor del Pueblo and […]

The Defensor del Pueblo has partially renewed the Advisory Council for the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment (Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura) (NPM). A professor of administrative law, Lorenzo Martín-Retortillo; a judge and member of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of […]