The Institution of Commissioners for Human Rights: Ways to Improve the Efficiency of Functioning in Modern Conditions

The paper is devoted to examining the concept and functions, as well as the main tasks of the institution of ombudsmen for human rights. The author examined the views of modern legal science and practice on the concept of the institution of ombudsmen for human rights. The paper provides a definition and a classification of the functions of this important institution of state human rights activities. The author proposes to distinguish the following main functions: protective, expert, mediative, control, educational, heuristic, axiological, and coordinating. The author analyzed the main tasks in the activities of the institution of ombudsmen for human rights in the Russian Federation at the federal and regional levels, as well as in the BRICS member states. The author proposed to identify four main tasks in the activities of the Institute of Ombudsmen for Human Rights in the Russian Federation: consideration of citizens’ appeals; improving legislation; legal education; international cooperation, as well as more than 10 additional ones. An analysis of the normative legal acts and practical activities of the institution of ombudsmen for human rights in the Russian Federation, as well as the legislation of foreign states on ombudsmen, allowed the author to highlight modern trends in the development of this human rights mechanism and offer prospects for its improvement.

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