The visits were held in Lenkaran City Mixed Type Boarding House and
Lenkaran City Integration Training Boarding Type Gymnasium.
The aim of the visit carried out by the NPG members basing on the
OPCAT demands was investigation of treatment of children and detention
conditions in the both institutions. During the visit dormitories, class and
training rooms, kitchen, bathroom, administrative rooms, general areas were
visited; detention conditions in the institution, the treatment of children,
their education and organization of their leisure time were inspected.
Private conversations were held with some group of children residing in
the institution and they were asked about the treatment by the staff, their
provisions and conditions. The children were explained their rights, they
made no complaints on the condition and treatment by the staff in the
boarding school.
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 schools to carry out teaching of child rights, to
keep under control the situation with treatment of children by the staff.
The visit was held by the NPG members in Zagatala City Boarding
Schoolbasing on the OPCAT demands. During the meetings carried out in
the institution the children, teachers and educators were carried out separate
conversations with, all objects of the institution were visited; existing
conditions and treatment of children resisting there were inspected.
At the end of the visit, basing on the national legislation, international
standards and the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the NPG members
gave relevant recommendations to the principle of the school.
2.2.8. The institutions of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection
of Population
Within the frames of the activity of the Ombudsman as the National
Preventive Mechanism the staff members of Ganja Regional Center of the
Commissioner who are the members of the National Preventive Group
carried out 6 scheduledand ad-hoc visits in 2016 to the institutions under the
jurisdiction of the Ministry of Labour 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.33
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