The Children’s Rights Ombudsman (CRO) is one of the system institutions for the protection of human rights. In Poland, the CRO began its activities by law in 2000. Legal and organizational conditions meant that the function was held by five persons between 2000 and 2023. The institution went through diverse phases of operation, so developmental instability became the main analytical category.
The article is focused to analyzing the results of the study on the genesis of the institution, the trends of legal changes, the course of recruitment of subsequent Ombudsmen and the circumstances of the end of their mandate. The analysis is based on parliamentary session transcripts, audit documents and media reports.
The purpose of the analysis is to define the barriers to the institutionalization process and to reconstruct the mechanisms blocking development in the intra-system and extra-system dimensions. The model reference are the rules that guarantee the highest standards of operation of control institutions: independence, apolitical, authority. The main recommendation from the research is that advocacy for children’s rights in Poland requires fundamental systemic changes.
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