TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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