Five Tajik children have been returned back to Tajikistan from Syria, Head of Tajikistan’s Office of Children's Rights Commissioner, Ms. Rajabmoh Habibullozoda, noted while presenting the draft strategy of activities of the Office of Children's Rights Commissioner designed for 2018-2020.
“We do not have exact information how many Tajik children have been returned back to Tajikistan from Syria so far. We just have information that five Tajik children have been returned back to Tajikistan from Syria. They had been brought there by their parents,” Ms. Habibullozoda noted.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Ahad Sodiqov, the head of the Department for State Protection of Child’s Rights under the President’s Executive Office, noted that one the main tasks of the Office of Children's Rights Commissioner was in supporting improvement of children’s access to a quality education.
“3,865 schools now function in Tajikistan and 200 new other schools will be put in commission in the coming school year,” Sodiqov said.
According to him, 48 teenage boys are currently being held in correctional facilities.
The Children's Commissioner is a public authority in various countries charged with the protection and promotion of the rights of children and young people, either in society at large, or in specific categories such as children in contact with the care system. The agencies usually have a substantial degree of independence from the executive, and generally operate as specialized ombudsman offices or national human rights institutions, dealing with individual complaints, intervening with other public authorities, conducting research, and – where their mandate permits them to engage in advocacy – generally promoting children's rights in public policy, law and practice. The first children's commissioner was established in Norway in 1981. The creation of such institutions has been promoted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
