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...
...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...
...gangs that McCord proved how tough he really is - by taking on not only the killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report echoes McCord's allegations, on the basis of his investigation into...
...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...