SAINT LUCIA: Children's Ombudsperson

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Summary: Information about institutions in Saint Lucia that monitor children's rights.

Children's Ombudsperson

Saint Lucia has a Parliamentary Commissioner established under Chapter IX of the Constitution of Saint Lucia who functions as an Ombudsperson. The mandate of the Commissioner includes the investigation of complaints, including individual complaints, of injustice caused by the administration of government departments, local authorities and a number of other public institutions listed in the Constitution. However, in its Concluding Observations of 2005, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern that the Commissioner did not have a specific mandate for the independent monitoring and promotion of children's rights, and that there was no child-specific or child-sensitive procedure for filing individual complaints.

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