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Means of Redress and Supervision

Learn about the mechanisms of redress and supervision for disabled individuals in Estonia, involving legislative, executive, judicial powers, and local governments. Discover how the Chancellor of Justice ensures rights protection and societal awareness.

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Means of Redress and Supervision

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  1. Means of Redress and Supervision Igor Aljošin Senior Adviser to the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia 24.-25.05.2011

  2. There are 118 thousand disabled persons in Estonia (8.8% of the whole Estonian population). Disabled persons are under the special care of the state and local governments. The guarantee of rights and freedoms is the duty of the legislative, executive and judicial powers, and of local governments.

  3. Legislative power: • passing legislation • ensuring that legislation is in conformity with the • constitution and international law provisions

  4. Executive power(Government, ministries, state agencies, legal persons in public law): elaborating state policy elaborating legislation exercising supervision providing help settling of complaints raising society’s awareness of topics related to disabled persons raising disabled persons’ activeness involving disabled persons in social processes

  5. Judicial power: • observing that other powers do not violate fundamental rights • settling of complaints • exercising supervision

  6. Local government: • elaborating regional policy • passing legislation • providing help • exercising supervision • settling of complaints • involving disabled persons in social processes

  7. Chancellor of Justice: • verifying constitutionality of legislative acts • settling of complaints (ombudsman) • NPM • raising society’s awareness of topics related to disabled • persons

  8. igor.aljosin@oiguskantsler.ee

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