TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukrainemedical-prophylactic; sanitary-hygienic; anti-epidemic; and sanitary-educationalwork; professional development for medical staff; medical provision forthe reception-distribution unit for minors.According to these Rules a medical examination should be carried out ofall minors who are brought to the reception-distribution unit. Particular attentionis paid to children’s susceptibility to pediculosis, skin and infectiousillnesses. There is also a sanitary procedure with cell disinfection of clothes andfootwear. The duties of the medical staff include following on a day to day basisthe state of health of children; carrying out a daily round; seeing outpatients;providing medical care to those who are ill and moving them where needed tothe medical isolation unit of the reception-distribution unit or sending them tomedical-prophylactic establishments within the healthcare system.In these Rules “medical unit staff” are mentioned as the implementers,however there is no definition of who these workers actually are, what theirmedical qualifications are, their specialisation; the numbers of members ofstaff. Going by the name of the document “official duties of a nurse in a reception-distributionunit for children, provided by the Interior Ministry togetherwith their answer to the researchers’ information request, one can concludethat a nurse should be part of the staff of a reception-distribution unit.The rules for the material and technical provisions of reception-distributionunits for minors (approved by Interior Ministry Order No. 384 from13.07.1996) envisage that reception-distribution units are provided with medicationand medical equipment by local pharmacy departments on the basisof applications submitted once a year.It is difficult to make up such an application since the number of childrenwho will be held in the reception-distribution unit is unknown.2.6. Mechanism and procedures of monitoringof the treatment of minors in the contextof criminal justice regarding minorsIn its concluding observations, the UN Committee on the Rights of theChild states with respect to Ukraine:“16. The Committee strongly recommends that the State party undertakes thenecessary measures for establishing a separate independent national mecha-126
Section 2Administrative standards and proceduresnism, in full accordance with the Paris Principles relating to the Status of NationalInstitutions (A/RES/48/134, annex), to ensure comprehensive and systematicmonitoring of children’s rights. To this end, the Committee recommends that theState party considers adopting the Law on the Introduction of the Ombudsmanfor Children in Ukraine. The Committee recommends the State party to ensurethat this national mechanism be provided with sufficient human and financialresources to ensure its independence and efficacy in accordance with its GeneralComment No. 2 (2002) on the role of independent human rights institutions. 63The Committee on the Rights of the Child also calls on the State party “to strengthenindependent monitoring of the situation for children in confinement, includingwith the help of mobile groups (see. CCPR/C/UKR/6/Add.1 (2008) andCAT/C/UKR/CO/5 (2007)) or other mechanisms until the member state officiallycreates a National Preventive Mechanism in accordance with the Optional Protocolto the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degradingtreatment and punishment. 64Monitoring visits to places of confinement in which children are held arecarried out in accordance with the Law on the Human Rights Ombudsman bya representative of the Ombudsperson together with activists of the humanrights movement who are members of the relevant working groups under theOmbudsperson, and also other representatives of NGOs.63 Committee on the Rights of the Child. Fifty sixth session. Review of reports submitted bythe State participants in accordance with Article 44 of the Convention. Concluding ObservationsUkraine. http://www.unicef.org/ukraine/UN_CRC_ConcludingObservations_Engl.pdf64 Ibid127
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