Office of the Ombudsman (Antigua and Barbuda)

Office of the Ombudsman (Antigua and Barbuda)
Office of the Ombudsman
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Logo of the Office of the Ombudsman
Agency overview
Jurisdiction Antigua and Barbuda
Headquarters St John's, Antigua and Barbuda
Annual budget $
Agency executive Dr Hayden Thomas, Ombudsman
Website
http://www.ombudsman.gov.ag/bio.html

The Office of the Ombudsman is an independent officer of Parliament appointed under Section 66 of the Antigua and Barbuda Constitution.[1] It is accredited as a national human rights institution (NHRI) but with the lowest ('C') status accorded by the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC). It has only limited participation in the regional NHRI network, the Network of National Institutions in the Americas. Like most ombudsman offices it is primarily concerned with addressing maladministration in public bodies, rather than human rights violations.

The current Ombudsman is Dr Hayden Thomas, who was appointed Antigua and Barbuda's first Ombudsman in 1995 and was later elected President of the Caribbean Ombudsman Association, member of the Board of Directors of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Special Fund for Ombudsman and other National Human Rights Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.[2]

See also

Index of Antigua and Barbuda-related articles

References

  1. ^ "Antigua and Barbuda, Office of the Ombudsman". BASESwiki. http://baseswiki.org/en/Antigua_and_Barbuda,_Office_of_the_Ombudsman. 
  2. ^ "About the Ombudsman". Office of the Ombudsman. http://www.ombudsman.gov.ag/bio.html. 

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