2014 April 30, Lars Bevanger, “Circumcision row”, inDW[1]:
"All the Nordicombudsmen have the same view: that circumcision of boys should not be done until the boy is old enough to decide himself if is something he wants to do,” Anne Lindboe, Norway'sOmbudsman for Children, told DW.
2019 August 13, “A Pueblo center for troubled kids had 243 abuse allegations in the year before it closed”, inThe Colorado Sun[2]:
Theombudsman found that youth living at El Pueblo remained under the care and supervision of staff who had been accused of abusing them. In one case, a youth was reportedly dragged across the carpet by two staff members, resulting in rugburns on his face.
A designated internalmediator in an organization whose duty is to assist members withconflictresolution and other problems and to serve as an independentconsultant to recommend changes to policies or procedures to improve organization effectiveness, efficiency, andhumaneness.
Derived from Swedish, where the suffix-man is not always gender specific. Nevertheless, the wordsombud,ombuds,ombudsperson, andombudswoman have been coined to remedy the perceived gender-specificity ofombudsman in English.
In Quebec, the office in government services is calledprotecteur du citoyen. A similar office in France is that of themédiateur, though its precise functions differ.
a designated internalmediator in an organization whose duty is to assist members withconflictresolution and other problems and to serve as an independentconsultant to recommend changes to policies or procedures to improve organization effectiveness, efficiency, andhumaneness
FromOld Swedishumbuds man orombud(“representative, proxy”) +man. The origin of the word is found inOld Norseumboðsmaðr and the word “umbuds man”, meaning representative. The first preserved use in Swedish is from 1552.
