On the sidelines of the International Ombudsman Conference 2023, the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) of Sri Lanka and Ombudsman Institution of Turkey entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 11 in Ankara.
The MoU between the Office of the Ombudsman of Sri Lanka and Ombudsman Institution of Turkey was signed in the presence of the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey, Mustafa Sentop, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Turkey, Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake, Ombudsman of Sri Lanka Justice (Retd.) K.T. Chitrasiri, and Chief Ombudsman of Turkey Seref Malkoc. Ombudsman of Sri Lanka Parliament and Chief Ombudsman of Turkey signed the MoU.
The main objective of the MoU is to focus on the role of the two institutions in Sri Lanka and Turkey in the field of protection of human rights and remedies for injustices while protecting citizens from injustice and discrimination. It further creates organizational conditions for cooperation between the two parties in the field of protection of citizens’ rights, complaints and other activities related to the tasks and purposes of the work of each party and thus contribute to the protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms within the powers vested by legislations.
The International Ombudsman Conference 2023 under the theme ‘The future of Human Rights in the 21st Century’ is funded by the European Union. More than 70 Ombudsmen participated from different regions Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East and shared the legal framework of Ombudsman in their own countries and their insights on the protection of human rights.
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