| SUMMARY |
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| CONTACT
INFORMATION |
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| Name
of Office (In National Language) |
LIETUVOS
RESPUBLIKOS VAIKO TEISIU APSAUGOS KONTROLIERIAUS ISTAIGA |
| Name
of Office (In English) |
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION |
| Postal
Address |
Subaciaus 5, Vilnius
LT-2001 |
| Visiting
Address |
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| Telephone |
+3702 207077 (
Ombudsman) |
| Fax |
+3702 207176 |
| Email
address |
: GRIMBR@LRS.LT
( Ombudsman) JUKAZL@LRS.LT
( Assistant) |
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| Title
of Ombudsman |
Children’s
Rights Ombudsman |
| Name
of Ombudsman |
GRAZINA IMBRASIENE |
| Name
of contact person for ENOC |
JURGA
KAZLAUSKAITE- Ombudsman’s Assistant e-mail: JUKAZL@LRS.LT |
| OFFICE
SIZE AND STRUCTURE |
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| Number of staff
members |
8 |
| List
of staff members and functions |
GRAZINA IMBRASIENE
AURIMAS MISKINIS
AUDRONE SAKALIENE
RAMINTA BUILAITE
JURGITA KAZLAUSKAITE
GRAZINA MACEIKIENE
EVALDAS TUINYLA
EDMUNDAS MATEIKA |
Children’s
Rights Ombudsman
SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE CHILDREN’S RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN
ADVISOR TO THE CHILDREN’S RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN
OMBUDSMAN’S ASSISTANT
OMBUDSMAN’S ASSISTANT
SPECIALIST ( FINANCIER)
ADMINISTRATOR
PRESS REPRESENTATIVE
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| Administrative
Officers |
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| Projects |
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| Summary
of annual Budget |
| Annual budget for
2001 is 443,000 Lt. |
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| Principal sources
of funding
Principal source of funding is State budget means.
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| HISTORY
OF THE OFFICE |
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| Date the office
was established |
2000
September 1 |
| Initiator
of the Ombudsman office:
The idea to establish Children’s Ombudsman
Institution came out of many conferences held by various Children agencies
, institutions and non-governmental organizations. It was decided that to
have only one monitoring body is not enough. An Institution that should
monitor all regional Children’s Agencies was needed. European practice
also made big impact while establishing such an Institution
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| Steps
Involved in establishing office |
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| Major
changes in structure, focus and activities |
| No
structural changes have been made since Institution was established. |
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| Terms
of reference or Mission Statement |
| Children’s
Rights Ombudsman Law is not translated into any other language, yet. |
| Standing
instructions |
| AIMS
AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES |
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| Office Activities
Influencing policy development at national level.
Data collection on children
Monitoring the impact of laws/policies on children.
Monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child.
Individual casework.
Training of professionals or other groups on children
s rights
Other activities:
On the basis of the Children’s Rights Ombudsman Law, an Ombudsman has
the right:
- to control the implementation of UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child;
-to influence adoption of the new laws and to modify already existing
laws, concerning protection of the rights of the child;
-to investigate appeals from individuals or judicial persons on state,
governmental authorities, local administration, their officers,
non-governmental-organizations and other individuals or judicial person
whose actions or inactivities violate or may violate general rights and
fundamental freedoms of a child;
-to gain the needed information concerning the protection of the rights
of the child;
-to start investigation on his/her own initiative having information
about violations of the provisions of the general rights of the child;
-to participate and express his/her opinion in Seimas and Governmental
sessions where the question on children’s rights protection is under
discussion
Principal themes for work in the current year:
Child participation
Protection from harmful information
Protection from all forms of violence
Sexual exploitation
Children in institutions
Education:
Juvenile justice |
| EVALUATIONS/STUDIES |
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| Evaluation
of the effectiveness/impact of the office |
| Annual
report on Institutions work should be presented to the Seimas of Republic
of Lithuania each year by 1st of April. The first annual report
is available in Lithuanian language. |
| Other
publications or studies available
Our Institution co-operates with the Lithuanian
National Committee for UNICEF. UNICEF already supported one of our request
for assistance for the printing of publications for the office of the
Children’s Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Lithuania.
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