Many countries have created an institute of children's rights commissioner or ombudsman, the first being Norway in 1981.
When Dinkins became mayor in 1990, he appointed deLeon the city's human rights commissioner.
He told his human rights commissioner, Sergei Kovalyov, that "it was too early" to stop the war.
Jose Ayala Lasso, the human rights commissioner, has called for "effective international action."
The city's human rights commissioner also sits on the task force.
The children's charities are backing our policy of a children's rights commissioner to whom children can go, wherever they are, and be listened to.
The judge said she expects to make her recommendation to a panel of human rights commissioners on Friday.
There was, however, still no agreement to create the recommended position of human rights commissioner, instead a ministerial management group was empowered with enforcement.
In 1981, he served briefly as New York's human rights commissioner.
Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths 'cannot be put down to margins of war'
