Ombudsman for Children and Youth

Organisation name in original language

Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher (OKAJU)

Category of human rights structure

Statutory human rights body

Country

Luxembourg

Type(s) of body

Ombuds institution (OI)

Address

65, route d’Arlon,L-1140 Luxembourg

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Legal source(s)

Human rights capacity support

Not applicable

Functions

  • Oversight
  • Providing remedy
  • Collecting data on human rights violations
  • Performing promotional activities
  • Other

Specific mandates

  • Ombud with a mandate on maladministration
  • Rights of the child

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Luxembourg Government
  • Interministerial Human Rights Committee
  • Consultative Assembly of the Luxembourg Independent Broadcasting Authority
  • Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development, Cooperation and Foreign Trade and its Business and Human Rights Working Group
  • Civil-society organisations
  • National human rights institutions
  • Trade unions, private-sector organisations and academia
  • Ministry of Family Affairs, Solidarity, Living Together and Reception of Refugees and its Interministerial Committee for the Promotion of the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Persons
  • National Youth Service and its BEE SECURE initiative
  • Ministries and their services
  • Chamber of Deputies

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • Member of the Association of Francophone Ombudsmen and Mediators
  • UN Human Rights Committee and Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Member of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children
  • Member of Eurochild
  • Council of Europe
  • European Commission

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