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| CONTACT INFORMATION |
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| Name of Office (In
National Language) |
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| Name of Office (In
English) |
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights Office |
| Postal Address |
24/a, Office 441, Lenin Av.,
Ekaterinenburg, 620038,
Russia |
| Visiting Address |
None |
| Telephone |
+7 (3432) 51 96 03 |
| Fax |
+7 (3432) 51 96 03 |
| Email address |
tronina@sov.mplik.ru |
| WWW |
None |
| Title of Ombudsman |
Executive Officer , Commissioner for
Children’s Rights |
| Name of
Ombudsman/Director-General |
Zinaida Soudakova |
| Name of contact
person for ENOC |
Zinaida Soudakova |
| OFFICE
SIZE AND STRUCTURE |
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| Number of staff members |
1 |
| List of staff
members and functions |
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| Administrative
Officers |
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| Projects |
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| Summary of annual
Budget |
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Staff:
Rent for premises:
Moulding of public opinion:
Total Budget for 1999 |
50 US dollars per month |
| Principal sources of funding |
None Total income by government grant |
| HISTORY
OF THE OFFICE |
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| Date the office was established |
January 5, 1998 |
| Initiator of the
Ombudsman office The head of the city of Ekaterinenburg Mr.
Arkady M. Chernetsky |
| Steps Involved in establishing
office |
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| Major changes in structure,
focus and activities |
| The necessity to take part in
legal proceedings |
| Legislation establishing the
office The resolution of the City Duma, N34/3 of 10th
of February, 1998 |
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| Terms of reference or Mission
Statement |
| "About the approval of
temporary status of Commissioner for Children’s Rights" |
| AIMS AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES |
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Office keeping in touch with Children
 | Direct consultation with individual children |
| Telephone hotline |
| Community meetings with groups of children |
| National fora with children |
| Internet or other computer technology |
| Other : Meeting with children and their parents, teachers at the
school./The twelfth of legal proceedings were won. |
Categories of activities
| Influencing policy development at national level :no |
| at state/provincial level: Yes, at local/community level: yes |
| data collection on children: We use different information sources |
| monitoring the impact of laws/policies on children: by Zinaida
Soudakova |
| monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the:
 | Rights of the Child:with the aid of the government |
| Individual casework:meeting with citizens |
| Education/awareness raising on children s rights : Round table with
students, teachers, pupils |
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Training of professionals or other groups on children s rights:
| With the aid of the Educational University of Jurisprudence |
Other activities :
| taking part at the creation of bills, deliver speeches at the State and
Oblast Duma |
Sectors office has had the most experience:
| the justice system |
| the school system |
Principal themes for work in the current year:
| Child participation |
| Freedom of expression |
| Access to appropriate information |
| Protection from harmful information: non-effective |
| Protection from all forms of violence |
| Children in institutions |
| Disabled children |
| Juvenile justice: not yet |
| Minority children: regarded as other kids |
| Refugee children: seldom |
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| EVALUATIONS/STUDIES |
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| Evaluation of the
effectiveness/impact of the office |
- "The world of childhood and youth"; "Put in a word for
poor children"- Dvoinoy express
- "Have the rights" – Uralskiy Rabochiy (Ural workers)
(In Russian) |
| Other publications or studies
available |
| "Even an embryo has the right
for a habitation" Argumenti I Fakte -(Arguments and Facts) "Possessed
as a comosol, iron as a human being" Karera - (Career)
"Children are citizens like others" Nobaya Gorodskaya –
(The New City Newspaper)
"Mostly parents break break the rights of their children"
Oblastnaya Gazeta - (Oblast Newspaper)
"Give me a word" Vecherny Ekaterinenburg ( Ekaterinenburg
Evening Newpaper)
"There are adults, who dispute children’s rights" Pervoe
sentyabrya – (The first September) |
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