Remarks on an unrealized law project or a possibility for introducing children’s ombudsman in Bulgaria Cover Image

Бележки по един несбъднат законопроект или възможност за въвеждане на детски омбудсман в България
Remarks on an unrealized law project or a possibility for introducing children’s ombudsman in Bulgaria

Author(s): Hristo Ormandzhiev
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Law on Economics, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: ombudsman for children; rights of the children; law project; immunity; status; Convention for the rights of the child; specialized ombudsman; Child protection Act; law models of the institution.

Summary/Abstract: The article has for its ground the implementation of the ombudsman in the Bulgarian legislation and also the experience for such implementation of the specialized ombudsman for protection of the child rights. It follows the content of the Project of the Ombudsman Act for protection of the child rights and contains analyse of the involved norms, but also the opinion of the author about them. In the article is researched the foreign experience of similar specialized institutions in the EU countries and also the used law technic for its implementation. The author shows akcents about the principles of the organization of the ombudsman for children, its election and action way.It is shown the current situation with the Bulgarian legislation in the area of the children rights protection, where the current mechanismes are shown. The article contains as a result the imagination that the Ombudsman for children rights protection is a necessary institution and grounds de lege ferenda its future law development.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 44-56
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian