SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES: Children's Ombudsperson

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Summary: Information about institutions in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that monitor children's rights.

Children's Ombudsperson

The creation of an independent Omhudsperson and an Independent Human Rights Commission were part of a proposed Constitutional reform in 2009, but the proposal failed to gain sufficient support in a national referendum and was not implemented. As of July 2012, there was still no independent mechanism to monitor the rights of children in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.  The Committee on the Rights of the Child has long been critical of the absence of an independent national mechanism to receive and act on complaints of child rights violations, noting the lack of a children's ombudsperson in its 2002 Concluding Observations.

Organisation: 
Child Rights International Network

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