National Preventive Group continues visits in regions

Members of the National Preventive Group against Torture (NPG) carried out a visit in the Sheki city mixed-type children’s home without prior notice upon the instruction of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) Elmira Suleymanova.

The purpose of the visit was to get familiar with the living conditions of children from different age groups and the treatment towards them by the staff members of the institution, also the state of ensuring their rights.

Members of the NPG, representative of the UNICEF and an expert in the field of social work took part in the visit.  During the visit, they monitored the bedrooms, rooms for studying and organizing leisure time, canteen and kitchen, food storage, medical room and investigated state of provision and relevant documentation.

NPG members talked to and interviewed the children, administration of the facility, psychologists, teachers and medical staff in order to investigate the treatment issues in the facility and monitored the existing situation, documentation and ensuring children’s rights.

The conditions of service, nutrition, food provision, medical assistance, walking and status of ensuring other rights, also the issues of treatment with children have been assessed satisfactory in the facility, newly opened and supplied with relevant equipment.

At the end of the visit, members of the NPG conducted awareness-raising discussions with the administration of the institution according to the national and international standards, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They were given respective recommendations aimed at enhancing attention to implementation, promotion and ensuring of children’s rights and improving activity and documentation.