CHAPTER 6.
OUTCOMES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
As a result of submission of numerous proposals and recommendations
during the activity of Ombudsman under the demands of OPCAT and the
Constitutional Law on the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of
the Republic of Azerbaijan under demand of OPCAT and realized in the
reviewed period, the attitude of law enforcement bodies, punishment execution
structures and other state agencies and officials to the essence of human rights
and their ensuring has been changed positively, the legal thought was formed in
a new content, the steps were undertaken in the direction of improvement the
administration.
The Commissioner builds her activity following in compliance with the
Paris Principles:
- promotes bringing the national legislation acts and practices in compliance
with international documents on human rights to which the country is a party
to;
- promotes adhering of the country to international documents and
implementation of international norms in the national legislation, as well as
carrying out relevant measures;
- assists in working out the reports on the activities realized under the
international conventions to be submitted to the UN bodies and regional
institutions, expresses her reference regarding these report in compliance with
the principle of independency, as well as submits additional report.
From this standpoint more than half of proposals and recommendations
presented in the previous reports on the activity of the Commissioner as the
NPM were solved or directed for implementation. The present report also
enshrines the recommendations among the previous ones but still waiting for
their solution, as well as the new proposals and recommendations coming up
within the activity process.
With the aim of analysis of the results of the activity carried out as the NPM
in 2017, efficient protection of detainees’ rights, the Commissioner proposes
the following:
Regarding the normative legal acts:
1. Approval of the Charter of the Social Adaptation Center and the
Statutes of Social Service Institutions for the persons released from penal
institutions at the State Social Protection Fund (Cabinet of Ministers);
2. Approval of the temporary Statute on “Detention stations for
administratively arrested persons” and “Internal Disciplinary Rules in
Penitentiary Institutions”(Cabinet of Ministers);
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