Peculiarities of the Ukrainian Ombudsman's Activity under Martial Law.

The article deals with the issues of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the context of martial law. The author analyses the legislation regulating the work of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights and her powers in the field of ensuring and protecting human and civil rights. The author establishes that the scope of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights includes relations between a citizen and state institutions, local self-government bodies, institutions, organisations, associations of citizens, their officials, etc., but most often it is control in the area of relations between a citizen and executive authorities. The article analyses the work of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the area of ensuring and protecting the rights and freedoms of children, since they are the most vulnerable category of persons affected by the armed conflict and cannot take care of themselves. In particular, special attention was paid to the problems of deportation of Ukrainian children, possible ways of returning them to Ukraine, and the issue of illegal adoption of children by Russian citizens, including even by the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights. It is determined that the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent, politically neutral, one-person body appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which on a regular basis monitors the observance of constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen and protects the rights of everyone on the territory of Ukraine and within its jurisdiction, but it acts informally at its own discretion and, unfortunately, its decisions are not binding. It is noted that the Ombudsman institution belongs to non-governmental national human rights institutions which are established to control and supervise the activities of public authorities and local self-government bodies to ensure that they observe human and civil rights and freedoms, and also participates in the mechanism of restoration of violated human and civil rights and freedoms. Keywords: Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Ombudsman, parliamentary control, human rights violations, human rights protection.