Commissioner for Human Rights is the person who protects the rights of people including those of children. In the world practice this person is called ombudsman.

National Centre of Human Rights is the executive branch of the National Commission for Human rights Ombudsman collaborates with different international organizations that aid in children rights promotion. The organizations in partnership are:

• UNICEF
• European Union
• International prison reform and others

In 2010-2012 Ombudsman along with UNICEF carried out research that helped in identifying conditions for children in schools, kindergartens, boarding schools and orphanage houses.

Another research aimed at studying the reasons for children’s exposure to human trafficking and sexual exploitations.

As the result of these researches, Ombudsman put forward recommendations to the governmental organizations to improve the lives of children in Kazakhstan.

For example, on the east of Kazakhstan the project on prevention of cruel treatment at schools and boarding schools is being realized

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Besides that, in 2013 Law on creating National Preventive Mechanism was implemented. It marked that from that day on prisons, colonies, organizations of forced treatment, centers of adaptation for adolescents, special organizations of education, etc. would be visited by representatives of the public organizations in order to prevent cruel treatment towards people. NPM in Kazakhstan is coordinated by the National Commission for Human Rights