Surayyo Rakhmonova’s candidacy approved for the position of Children’s Ombudsman

Today, October 10, the next plenary meeting of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis was held, the Kun.uz correspondent reported.

During the meeting, as one of the issues on the agenda, the issue of approving Surayyo Rakhmonova as the Representative on Children’s Rights was also discussed. Allegedly, the candidate was approved for this position by the majority of deputies. Now Surayyo Rakhmonova’s candidacy must also be approved by the Senate.

For information, Surayyo Rahmonova was born in 1978 in Tashkent.

She is a graduate of the Tashkent State Law University. In 2015, she received the scientific title of associate professor, and in 2018 – the scientific degree of Doctor of Legal Sciences (DSc).

In 2018-2019, Surayyo Rakhmonova was head of the PGO Public Relations and Legal Information Service, from 2019 – head of the AIMC department. She has been working in the Senate public relations department since 2022.

It should be recalled that Aliya Yunusova, who worked as a representative of the Oliy Majlis on children’s rights, resigned in September of this year. “Based on the current situation, I am announcing that I am ending my work as a representative for children’s rights,” Yunusova wrote on her Facebook page. She did not clarify what she meant by “current situation”.