In accordance with the norms of the Constitution, parents and substituting them persons are "required to raise children, care for their health, development and education, prepare them for work, teach culture, respect to the law to historical and national traditions."
In towns and villages, our children can study well, rest, exercise and engage in sports, it is paid special attention to increasing the number of modern pre-school institutions and schools, including specialized and children's recreational and entertainment centers, health resorts at the state level, where the necessary conditions are created. In this regard, as part of "President's National Programme for the improvement of social and living conditions in villages, towns, cities, districts and district centers for the period up untill 2020" across the country a large-scale work on the construction of social facilities that meet modern requirements of international standards is launched.
The international community fully supports our country's commitment to the fundamental ideas and principles of the UN children's rights and care for the younger generation. These principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Turkmenistan has ratified, confirming the high responsibility of the State in ensuring the most favorable conditions of life for the youngest citizens.
Today, these bases are translated into social guarantees and legal protection of motherhood and childhood, comprehensive reforms and transformations aimed at creating an all-encompassing system of protection of children's health, their harmonious upbringing and education that lead to an equal opportunity to develop their abilities.
Compliance for the rights of the child has been and remains the most important aspect of the national legislation. Turkmenistan acts a law "On State Guarantees of Child Rights", the provisions of which reflect the development of social and democratic processes in the country in compliance with international regulations. Here, the protection of children's rights is a cornerstone of social policy, the main criterion for a safe and prosperous society - is decent conditions for all children.
Among the rights and freedoms of the child, the law provides state guarantees to a healthy environment, to adequate education, to protection from exploitation at work. It should be emphasized that in accordance with the law it is strictly prohibited to use child labor, including the work in the field on agricultural work, and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the state level requires local authorities and heads of regions where it is conducted seasonal field campaigns to strictly control the rights of the child.
At the meetings of Interdepartmental Commission on Compliance Turkmenistan with international commitments in the field of human rights and international humanitarian law on a regular basis and discusses issues of effective implementation of the General Programme for the development of the justice system for minors.
In addition, in our country the government takes full responsibilities and takes care for children without parents, - the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of Turkmenistan says that they are "provided additional support and benefits from the state and public funds." Children without parents, in our country, are created all conditions so that they have found a large and friendly family, so that they feel that they are needed in the family and in our society.
Today, the humane tradition involves complex of legal guarantees and protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the child, as well as the system of economic of measures, targeted on social campaigns aimed, inter alia, at the full involvement of the orphans in the social environment, to prepare them for independent life and development their socially significant and creative activities, bring up their high moral qualities of citizenship.
In towns and villages, our children can study well, rest, exercise and engage in sports, it is paid special attention to increasing the number of modern pre-school institutions and schools, including specialized and children's recreational and entertainment centers, health resorts at the state level, where the necessary conditions are created. In this regard, as part of "President's National Programme for the improvement of social and living conditions in villages, towns, cities, districts and district centers for the period up untill 2020" across the country a large-scale work on the construction of social facilities that meet modern requirements of international standards is launched.
The international community fully supports our country's commitment to the fundamental ideas and principles of the UN children's rights and care for the younger generation. These principles are enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Turkmenistan has ratified, confirming the high responsibility of the State in ensuring the most favorable conditions of life for the youngest citizens.
Today, these bases are translated into social guarantees and legal protection of motherhood and childhood, comprehensive reforms and transformations aimed at creating an all-encompassing system of protection of children's health, their harmonious upbringing and education that lead to an equal opportunity to develop their abilities.
Compliance for the rights of the child has been and remains the most important aspect of the national legislation. Turkmenistan acts a law "On State Guarantees of Child Rights", the provisions of which reflect the development of social and democratic processes in the country in compliance with international regulations. Here, the protection of children's rights is a cornerstone of social policy, the main criterion for a safe and prosperous society - is decent conditions for all children.
Among the rights and freedoms of the child, the law provides state guarantees to a healthy environment, to adequate education, to protection from exploitation at work. It should be emphasized that in accordance with the law it is strictly prohibited to use child labor, including the work in the field on agricultural work, and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the state level requires local authorities and heads of regions where it is conducted seasonal field campaigns to strictly control the rights of the child.
At the meetings of Interdepartmental Commission on Compliance Turkmenistan with international commitments in the field of human rights and international humanitarian law on a regular basis and discusses issues of effective implementation of the General Programme for the development of the justice system for minors.
In addition, in our country the government takes full responsibilities and takes care for children without parents, - the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of Turkmenistan says that they are "provided additional support and benefits from the state and public funds." Children without parents, in our country, are created all conditions so that they have found a large and friendly family, so that they feel that they are needed in the family and in our society.
Today, the humane tradition involves complex of legal guarantees and protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the child, as well as the system of economic of measures, targeted on social campaigns aimed, inter alia, at the full involvement of the orphans in the social environment, to prepare them for independent life and development their socially significant and creative activities, bring up their high moral qualities of citizenship.