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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) |
Office of the Commissioner for
Children’s Rights Administration of the Volgograd Region. |
| Postal Address |
Lenin Ave. 9, room 11,
Volgograd, 400098
Russian Federation |
| Visiting Address |
None |
| Telephone |
007-8442-33-5923 |
| Fax |
007-8442-93-6212 |
| Email address |
obladm@sprint-v.com.ru |
| WWW |
None |
| Title of Ombudsman |
Assistant of the Head of the
Volgograd Administration (or the governor’s assistant) |
| Name of
Ombudsman/Director-General |
Tatyana N. Alexeyeva |
| Name of contact
person for ENOC |
Galina I. Khorosheva |
| OFFICE
SIZE AND STRUCTURE |
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| Number of staff members |
one (commissioner) |
| List of staff members and
functions |
n/a |
| Administrative
Officers |
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| Projects |
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| Summary of annual Budget |
No budget for the year
of establishment (1998)
For 1999: 16 500 rubles- for producing and installation of advertisement boards on city
streets. |
| Principal sources of funding |
Now the one and only
source of funding is the regional budget
Total income by government grant |
| HISTORY
OF THE OFFICE |
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| Date the office was established |
The office of the
Commissioner for Children’s Rights started operating within the joint UNITED
NATION’S CHILDREN’S FUND/RUSSIAN FEDERATION pilot project for 1998/99. Date
established: 8 May 1998 |
Initiator of the
Ombudsman office
The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Russian Federation
and the Administration of the Volgograd Region. |
Steps Involved in establishing
office
- Signing of the joint UNICEF/RUSSIA pilot project on the establishment of
the status of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights (Autumn, 1997)
- Choosing 5 regions of the Russian Federation where to implement this
position.) (Autumn 1997)
- Introduction of the position of the Commissioner for Children’s
Rights for the Volgograd Region by the by-law of the Head of the Volgograd Regional
Administration.
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| Major changes in structure,
focus and activities |
-That was the Commissioner for Children’s Rights initiative to
participate in court trials when children are involved in any civil suit.
-The Council for Children’s Rights was established in the
Administration of the Volgograd Region (it is planned to open similar councils at schools
and non-governmental organizations)
-Propaganda and explanation of the essence of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child
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| Legislation establishing the
office |
| The position of the Commissioner
for Children’s Rights was set up by the by-law of the Head of Administration of the
Volgograd Region, yet the general Law itself is in process of working out. It will be
available here as soon as it is finished. |
| Terms of reference or Mission
Statement |
| The mission of the Commissioner is
to protect children’s rights in general as well as any individual child’s rights
but without the representation of any individual child’s interest. |
| AIMS
AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES |
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How this office consults with children
 | Direct consultation with individual children |
| Telephone hotline |
| Community meetings with groups of children |
| Other: contacts through mass media: organization of radio and TV
programmes with the participation of children and discussion of their problems;
introduction of Convention on the Rights of the Child through local newspapers; to involve
students or future social workers to work with children as volunteers. |
Activities Undertaken
| Influencing policy development at regional level, local/community levels |
| Data collection on children, |
| Monitoring of the impacts of laws/policies on children, |
| Monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, |
| Individual casework, |
| Education/awareness raising on children’s rights, |
| Training of professionals or volunteer students on children’s
rights. |
Sectors where office has had the most experience
| the school system |
| other: contacts with mass media |
Principal themes for work in the current year:
| Child participation |
| Freedom of expression |
| Access to appropriate information |
| Other: work with individual cases to teach children to know their
rights (to publish booklets with the adapted and short version of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child – easy-reading for children, to distribute in children’s
institutions leaflets with the excerpts from this Convention and the Commissioner for
Children’s Rights contact address – where a child can get help, to print
note-book cover sheets with the extracts of the above Convention etc. |
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| EVALUATIONS/STUDIES |
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| Evaluation of the
effectiveness/impact of the office |
| None |
| Other publications or studies
available |
| Publications in local newspapers
on theme: Child Rights and his protection, participation in radio, TV programmes |
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