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Summary: Information about institutions in the Seychelles that monitor children's rights.
Children’s Ombudsperson
The Constitution provides for a general Ombudsman, and the Cabinet of Ministers approved the setting up of a Commissioner of Children’s Rights and, as of 2009, the appointment of Commissioner of Children’s Rights was to be made by the President. The Commissioner would be administratively and legally accountable, and his or her primary functions would include: producing periodic reports concerning the implementation of the UN Convention; promoting the public awareness of, and compliance with, the principles and provisions of the Convention; ensuring that public authorities, private organizations and individuals have regard the rights, needs and interests of children in the performance of their functions or carrying out their activities; and receiving complaints of violations of children’s rights under the law, to investigate such complaints and to take appropriate action under the Act.
However, as of 2011, the Committee on the Rights of the Child reported that a National Human Rights Commission had been established in 2009 with no individual Commissioner of Children's Rights or specific mandate to monitor the fulfilment of children's rights.