News
24 June 2016
The People's Advocate Office has joined the campaign "Red for corruption"
The Ombudsman, MihailCotorobai, mentioned several times that corruption seriously affects human rights in Moldova. Corruption generates poverty, because public money is stolen, instead of reaching vulnerable people. Corruption generates discrimination, because the person who does not offer bribe is ...
17 June 2016
The Ombudspersons and employees of the People's Advocate Office of Moldova visit the Council of Europe
Between 14 to 15 June 2016 Mihail Cotorobai - the Ombudsman, and Maia Bănărescu - the Ombudsperson for Children's Rights, with the Office's employees Olga Vacarciuc, Dumitru Roman, Ada Simon, Elena Cernăuţeanu, LiudmilaBodrug and Ina Galan conducted a study visit to the Council of Europe. The visit ...
10 June 2016
21 journalists, most of them representing the regional press, attended the Press Club organized by the People's Advocate Office on "Human Rights in Moldova in the context of Universal Periodic Review (UPR)"
The Press Club was organized by the Ombudsman's Institution in cooperation with the Independent Press Association and with support from the project "Support to National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights (INPPDO) as recommended Committees UN Conventions and the Universal ...
10 June 2016
Repeated public consultation on the draft Regulation of organization and functioning of the Council for the Prevention of Torture
The People's Advocate Office presents the final consultation draft Rules of organization and functioning of the Council for the Prevention of Torture.When developing the current version, we have been taken into account proposals and suggestions of civil society representatives and international ...
31 May 2016
The People's Advocate, Mihail Cotorobai, attended the seminar organized by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
The Ombudsman attended the seminar organized by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), which was held in Strasbourg on 26-27 May. The seminar discussed issues regarding the role of national institutions specialized in advising authorities and other relevant actors in order ...
25 May 2016
The People's Advocate Office announces the creation of the Council of experts to monitor implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The commission for the selection of members of the Expert Council under the Office of the Ombudsman, that has the purpose to monitor the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities announces that following the interview which took place on May 24th 2016, the ...
23 May 2016
The People's Advocate: In a democracy the right to counter manifest cannot walk up to paralyze the right to manifest
The People's Advocate, Mihail Cotorobai, disapproves of the actions that led to obstructing the solidarity march "Without fear", held on May 22. The Ombudsman welcomes the law enforcement officers' efforts to ensure the realization of freedom of assembly and expression of opinion. Mihail Cotorobai ...
16 May 2016
Representatives from the People's Advocate Office in the European Village
On May 14, the Ombudsperson for Children's Rights, Maia Bănărescu, and other representatives of the Ombudsman Institution, Natalia Visanu, Tamara Tentiuc and Elena Draghici, participated in the activities of the European Village, organized by the EU Delegation in Moldova in the Public Garden “ ...
12 May 2016
The Office of the Ombudsman signed a cooperation agreement with the Association "The Nondiscrimination Coalition"
The Ombudsman Mihail Cotorobai participated on 12 May at the launch of the Study and guidance on investigating hate crime, held under the "Institutional partnership to strengthen and streamline the national system of protection against hate crime" project, implemented by the Nondiscrimination ...
11 May 2016
Mihail Cotorobai, the Moldovan Ombudsman has attended the International Workshop “Challenges for human rights in Europe: the answer of the ombudsman”
Mihail Cotorobai, at the invitation of the Catalan Ombudsman, the head of IOI, Rafael Ribo, has attended the International Workshop “Challenges for human rights in Europe: the answer of the ombudsman”, held in Barcelona, 26 - 27 April 2016. The workshop was organized by the International Ombudsman ...