The Institute of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights (Ombudsman) published its annual report, naming the key issues of 2025.
In 2025, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights received 167 inquiries from individuals and legal entities regarding the protection of rights and freedoms, ensuring interests, and restoring violated rights of children (in 2024 — 186), including 56 written (52), 109 oral (131), and 2 electronic (3).
The number of written inquiries by regions of the republic and from abroad was distributed as follows:
Which children’s rights were violated?
According to the classification, in 2025, most complaints concerned the material support of children and the collection of alimony. However, a worrisome trend was the increase in inquiries regarding violence against children and restrictions on the right to education.
Inquiries were distributed as follows:
Mothers more often demand protection of children’s rights
The Commissioner notes that, as in previous years, mothers most frequently file inquiries on behalf of and in the interests of children.
In 2025, written inquiries were submitted by:
The protection of children’s social rights, emphasizes the Ombudsman, remains one of the fundamental directions of child protection and development. Despite the measures taken, problems persist in ensuring children from low-income families have a safe living environment, timely alimony payments, and their targeted use.
Analysis showed that in 2025, the main part of inquiries concerned access to social assistance, parental care, and ensuring a decent standard of living for children.
At the same time, the increase in complaints related to the right to personal integrity and freedom from violence remains alarming.
Court decisions are not enforced
After the dissolution of the family, the Ombudsman notes, the father or mother often cannot meet with the child, even if there is a court decision on the matter.
“The provided statistics show that year after year, the number of inquiries related to the right to address and communication increases, aiming to remove obstacles to the child’s communication with the father, mother, and close relatives,” the report states.
The source adds that divorced parents complain: despite court decisions, they are not allowed to meet with their children. Officers of the enforcement service and local inspectors cannot ensure the execution of such decisions, forcing people to repeatedly contact government bodies.
“Analysis of inquiries shows that the issue of communication between the father, mother, and close relatives with children, as in previous years, depends on the hostility, resentment, and revenge of former spouses and their relatives, and in most cases, children’s rights are violated. Since all this happens in front of the children, the process seriously affects their lives, physical and mental health,” the report emphasizes.
Who harms children?
In 2025, according to the department, 10 complaints were received regarding possible violence against children.
“It is alarming that in most cases, children are subjected to violence by people they know and are attached to,” the department’s analysts noted.
Given the seriousness of the statements, the inquiries were sent to the General Prosecutor’s Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Committee for National Security, Shokhmansur District Court of Dushanbe, and the administration of the city of Vahdat. However, until now, the institute of the commissioner has not received the results of the complaint reviews.
“Providing information on the results of inquiry reviews also occurs untimely, and some government bodies allow for delays, complicating the monitoring of issue resolution,” the report states.
Which specific bodies are meant is not specified, and their position is also unknown.
Oral inquiries and field receptions
In 2025, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights received and reviewed 109 oral inquiries.
The geography of field receptions and the composition of applicants:
