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Summary: Information about institutions in Barbados that monitor children's rights.
Children's Ombudspersons The Office of the Ombudsman was created by the Ombudsman Act of 1987 and tasked with ascertaining whether injustice has been caused by improper, unreasonable or inadequate administrative conduct on the part of a government ministry, department or other authority. The Office may receive complaints from or on behalf of any citizen or resident of Barbados. The Committee on the Rights of the Child did not examine the operation of the Ombudsman as part of its consideration of Barbados' 1999 State report, so it is not clear to what extent the office monitors children's rights in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.