Word: ombudsman
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...Harvard Crimson has hired Michael Kolber, a first-year student at Harvard Law School, to serve as its ombudsman, said the paper’s president, Kristina M. Moore...
According to Moore, discussion on hiring an ombudsman began last year under the direction of former Crimson President William C. Marra...
Michael Kolber is The Crimson’s ombudsman and a Harvard Law School student. He will write a monthly column, responding to reader complaints with his independent critiques of The Crimson. This is his first column. He can be reached at ombudsman@thecrimson.com
...Nestlé has set up a significant programme of ensuring compliance and monitoring with the Code. Corporate auditors check about 20 countries every year to verify Code compliance. This is also monitored through an extensive Code Quality Assurance System, and an ombudsman protects internal whistleblowers. Any Code violation, if verified, is submitted to top management for review and remedial action. Such cases are also submitted to the Audit Committee of the Board...
...McCord told his findings to anyone who would listen. But apart from a handful of tabloid journalists, he says he wasn't taken seriously until 2002, when he met Nuala O'Loan. She had been appointed the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland as part of the reforms that followed the 1998 Good Friday settlement. A Catholic academic, Mrs. O'Loan's background is very different from McCord's. But she has proven to be equally tough-minded. Her report on a four-year investigation, published January 22, confirms McCord's basic conclusions. It alleges that some police informers in Northern...