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THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

The delegation collected information from the institution’s staff and the children
and made examination on the current situations, demands and needs of the children
between the ages of 12-18 living there.
Furthermore, within the scope of the activities for the protection of the rights of the
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child at local level, a consultation meeting was held on 12 September 2019 under the
cooperation of UNICEF and the Ombudsman Institution and with the participation
of the administrations’ and civil society organisations’ representatives active in the field
of child protection in Gaziantep.
In the meeting, where the public institutions, civil society organisations’ representatives
and children were available, information was collected on the civil society organisations’
activities carried out in the field of child protection and the participation of the children
in these activities.

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Participation in the 23 Annual Conference of the European Network of
Ombudsmen for Children and in the Seminar of the Council of Europe.
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The Ombudsman Institution was represented in the 23 Annual Conference of the
European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC), which was organised in
Northern Ireland on the dates between 25 and 27 September 2019.
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Participation in the II Meeting for 2019 of Child Advisory Board
Within the framework of their duties and responsibilities, the members of Child
Advisory Board comprising 20 children, who were selected to work actively at least for
2 years among the members of the Child Committee and whose number of boys and
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girls were equal, came together in Van Province on the dates between 25 and 28 June
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2019 in order to determine the contents of the 20 National Child Form, evaluate and
discuss the Advisory Board Action Plan for 2019 and social cohesion programme by
exercising their rights to participate and making their views known, which are secured
by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Training Programme on Children’s Rights in the Ombudsman Institution

Within the scope of annual work plan for 2019 prepared jointly by the Ombudsman
Institution and UNICEF Türkiye, training on children’s participation, guaranteed within
the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, was provided to the
assistant experts of the Ombudsman Institution and the students of Atılım University
doing internship in the Institution. During the training, which was led by Nilgün
Çavuşoğlu from UNICEF Türkiye on 24 June 2019, children’s rights, institutions
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responsible for protection and development of children’s rights, basic principles of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child were discussed and the programme was
concluded after a workshop on children’s rights.

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