Ombudsmen of Commonwealth Provided with Information about IPA CIS Activities in field of Childrens Protection

The Commission on the Rights of the Child (ombudsmen) of the CIS countries held its 3^rd session. The meeting of children’s ombudsmen was chaired by Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova.

Participants discussed several topics, such as ensuring children’s rights with disabilities, cybersecurity of juveniles, protection against violence and abuse, bringing up and education for children in the system of boarding schools, and protection of labor migrants’ children’s rights in education and healthcare.

Secretary of the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Social Policy and Human Rights Evgenia Vladimirova reported on the activities of the IPA CIS in creating a model legislative framework in the sphere of motherhood and childhood protection.

According to her, the Assembly has adopted more than 30 documents, that regulate this sphere, including model laws on the basic guarantees of children’s rights in the state, states’ youth policy, youth sports and tourism, protecting children from information, negatively influencing their health, and others.

Evgenia Vladimirova provided information to commission members on the Model law on the Commissioner for Children's Rights, which is currently being developed. The document aims to form legal bases of comprehensive regulations in the field of children’s rights and interests’ protection in the CIS countries. Defining common rules and principles in the field of children’s protection is another objective of the law.

MPs of the CIS countries will discuss the draft of the Model law next October. Then it will be sent to the Ombudsmen Commission for proposals and experts’ reviews.

Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Kyrgyz Republic Asel Chynbayeva was elected as a new chair of the commission. Alexander Matyushonok from Belarus and Maria Lvova-Belova from Russia were elected as co-chairs.

At the end of the meeting, the CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev wished the commission’s members to maintain positive dynamics of work for the next period. 

Representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Council of the CIS Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives at the Statutory and other Bodies of the Commonwealth to statutory and other bodies of the Commonwealth, officials of state regional government bodies, ombudsmen’s offices on children’s rights and the CIS Executive committee participated in the session.

The Kyrgyz Republic will chair the 4^th session of the commission in November 2024 in Minsk.