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Summary: Information about institutions in Spain that monitor children's rights.
Children's Ombudsperson The Protection of Minors Act (Act 1 of 1996) provides for the office of a federal Assistant Ombudsman with permanent responsibility for children's affairs, to whom children may submit complaints concerning the defence and safeguarding of their rights. Many of the autonomous communities also have children's ombudsperson's offices or divisions of general ombudsperson's offices responsible for children's rights, including the Deputy Ombudsman for Minors of Andalusia; the Justice Department of Aragon; the Diputado del Común serving as High Commissioner of the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the defence of fundamental rights and public freedoms, who deals with matters pertaining to minors; the Children’s Ombudsman serving as High Commissioner of the Madrid Assembly; the Adjunto al Sindic de Greuges as regional ombudsman for children in Catalonia; the Valedor do Pobo of Galicia, who, for the rights of children and adolescents, delegates these powers to one of his deputies, or Vicevaledores; the Office for the Protection of the Rights of the Child of the Balearic Islands Government; the Office for Minors within the Office of the Ombudsman of Castile-La Mancha; the Ombudsman of Navarra; the Ombudsman of Riojano; the Ombudsman of the Murcia Region; the Public Attorney of Castilla y León; the Attorney General of the Principality of Asturias; the Ombudsman of Valenciana, and a section for children’s rights within the Office of the Ombudsman/Ararteko of the Basque Country.