Ombudsman in Ukraine ( uk, Уповноважений/Уповноважена, Upovnovazhenyi/Upovnovazhena; literally ''
plenipotentiary
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'') is an office of commissioned representative who performs functions of
ombudsman
An ombudsman (, also ,), ombud, ombuds, ombudswoman, ombudsperson or public advocate is an official who is usually appointed by the government or by parliament (usually with a significant degree of independence) to investigate complaints and at ...
. Beside parliamentary ombudsman, there are several presidential commissioners.
List of ombudsmen in Ukraine
* Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Ombudsman ( uk, Уповноважений Верховної Ради України з прав людини), 1998
* Presidential Ombudsman of Children Rights ( uk, Уповноважений Президента України з прав дитини), 2011
* Presidential Ombudsman in Crimean Tatars Affairs ( uk, Уповноважений Президента України у справах кримськотатарського народу), 2014
* Presidential Ombudsman in Health Rehabilitation of participants of ATO ( uk, Уповноважений Президента України з питань реабілітації учасників бойових дій), 2018
* Presidential Ombudsman of Handicapped People Rights
* Governmental Ombudsman in Education ( uk, Освітній омбудсмен), 2017
* Business Ombudsman
Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Ombudsmen
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Nina Karpachova
Nina Ivanivna Karpachova ( uk, Ніна Іванівна Карпачова; born 12 August 1957) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. She was the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights from 1998 until 2012.
Early life and career
Ka ...
(1998–2012)
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Valeriya Lutkovska
Valeriya Volodymyrivna Lutkovska ( uk, Валерія Володимирівна Лутковська; born 20 January 1972) is a Ukrainian lawyer. She was Ombudsman of Ukraine from April 2012 until April 2017.
Early life and education
Lutkovsk ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(31 May 2023)
* (2022–present)
Presidential Ombudsman in Health Rehabilitation of participants of ATO
* Vadym Svyrydenko
Presidential Ombudsmen in Children Rights
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Yuriy Pavlenko
Yurii Oleksiiovych Pavlenko ( uk, Павле́нко Ю́рій Олексі́йович) is a Ukrainian politician and administrator, and former children's ombudsman of Ukraine.
Biography
Born in Kyiv in 1975, Pavlenko studied history at Ukrain ...
* Mykola Kuleba
Presidential Ombudsman in Crimean Tatars Affairs
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Mustafa Dzhemilev
Mustafa Abduldzhemil Jemilev ( crh, Mustafa Abdülcemil Cemilev, Мустафа Абдюльджемиль Джемилев, ), also known widely with his adopted descriptive surname Qırımoğlu "Son of Crimea" ( Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: , ; born ...
Governmental Ombudsman in Education
* appointment is anticipated in 2019
Business Ombudsman
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Algirdas Šemeta
Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta (born 23 April 1962) is a Lithuanian economist and politician.
Biography
A native of Vilnius
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Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
Human Rights Ombudsman.
{{Central office of executive authority of Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...