Role and status of ombudsperson and commissioner for the protection of equality

Without understating the importance of other independent institutions, the citizens are mostly referring to the Ombudsperson and the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality for the purpose of protecting their human rights. On the one hand, this results from the scope of work of these institutions and on the other it stems from the fact that the procedures before these authorities are free-of-charge for the citizens and they are devoid of strict and formal requirements which are by default included in other procedures for exercising the rights’ protection.