Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, OPCAT’s recommendations, CPT standards, recommendations
of the United Nations Committee on the rights of the Child.
During the visit, the attendees examined the institution's dormitories,
classrooms and educational rooms, administrative rooms, kitchens, general
facilities and premises, detention conditions, treatment with children in the
institution, their education and leisure time were investigated.
Children residing in the institution were received privately; individual
conversations were conducted with them; treatment, guarantees and living
conditions were investigated and also they were explained their rights.
Children did not complain about the treatment by the institution staff
members.
There is a need to improve the conditions of detention at Khinalig Full
Intermediate Boarding School and major repairs in sanitary nurseries. The
dining room and kitchen are fitted in a well-equipped room and do not meet
the requirements.
At the end of the visit, basing on the national legislation and the
Convention of the Rights of the Child, the NPG members recommended to
the administration of the school to carry out teaching of child rights, to keep
under control the situation with treatment of children by the staff.
2.2.7. The institutions of the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection of Population
Within the framework of the activity of the Ombudsman as an NPM the
NPG members carried out 11 ad-hoc visits in 2017 under the demand of
OPCAT and the Constitutional Law on the Commissioner for Human Rights
(Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the institutions under the
jurisdiction of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population.
The visits were held basing on the national legislation, the Law of the
Republic of Azerbaijan On Psychiatric Assistance, as well as international
standards, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, the UN Principles
for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of
Mental Health Care, UN Principles for Older Persons, the UN GA
International Plan of Action on Aging, CPT and SPT rules.
The visit was held by NPG members in Social Service InstitutionNo.2
for Children with Disabilities within the framework of the Commissioner's
as a National Preventive Mechanism.
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