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Summary: Information about institutions in Turkmenistan that monitor children's rights.
Children's Ombudsperson The National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights is formally empowered to receive complaints from citizens, but in its Concluding Observations of 2006, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about the ineffectiveness and lack of independence of the Institute. The Committee also noted the lack of a specialised body responsible for independent monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the absence of a body from which victims of children's rights violations would be able to obtain redress. The Committee urged the State to address this deficit in its human rights system by establishing an independent human rights institution with sufficient resources and personnel capable of dealing with complaints filed by or on behalf of children.