Human rights component added to Ombudsman office

Bridegetown.

A human rights component will be added to the post of the Ombudsman, this was reveal yesterday by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Maxine Mcclean, during an address at  the start of a two day seminar of the Commonwealth Secretariat. According to Mcclean, the Ombudsman participated in a three day workshop in Trinidad in March to examine ways in which the national human rights protection system might be strengthened  to include human rights protection at  the national level.