Eastern Partnership Report 2018 Off to the regions and into the future with Humanrights-online Reports on the rural meetings in the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Russia As part of the program framework of the German Federal Foreign Office for developing cooperation with civil society in the countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and Russia, the International Society for Human Rights and its sections set up projects
"To humiliate, arrest, finish him off." As in Moldova, objectionable lawyers are intimidated. Профессия адвоката в Молдове с некоторых пор стала опасной. Речь идет о тех адвокатах, которые берутся за громкие дела и идут против системы. Слежка, психологическое давление, открытие уголовных дел стали обычным делом в отношениях властей с неугодными адвокатами. В таких преследованиях, говорят некоторые из них, есть характерная особенность, которую можно назвать «фирменным стилем Плахотнюка» — это
Access to polling stations for people with disabilities in Moldova is limited Кодекс о выборах предусматривает, что помещения избирательных участков подбираются и оборудуются так, чтобы облегчить доступ людям с нарушениями опорно-двигательного аппарата. Местные власти несут ответственность за установку пандусов у входа на участки. Однако на данный момент есть много избирательных участков, не приспособленных для людей с ограниченными возможностями, передает esp.md. Исполнительный директор ассоциации «Motivație» Людмила Яким передвигается в инвалидной коляске
Parliamentary elections in Moldova: what you need to know about them 24 февраля Молдова в десятый раз выбирает парламент. Но эти выборы не похожи на остальные. «Ziarul de Gardă» рассказывает, что в них нового и чем это может кончится для страны, в которой продолжает снижаться уровень демократии. Смешанная система и админресурс В прошлом году Молдова перешла с пропорциональной системы голосования на смешанную. Это означает, что половину депутатов изберут по
EU urged to react strongly if widespread electoral fraud is reported The Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum is concerned about the prospect of Moldova being captured by oligarchic clans and having its constitutional institutions brought under their control. According to the organization, there is a high probability that the forthcoming election will mark a major step in this direction. According to a statement issued in Brussels,
Electoral period marked by incidents and observers’ intimidation Report no. 3 on the monitoring of February 24, 2019 parliamentary elections, drawn up by Promo-LEX OM, reveals a series of worrying trends, in particular, intimidation of Promo-LEX observers, early start of electoral campaigns, misuse of administrative resources and offering of electoral gifts, defective reporting of expenditure by initiative groups, as well as other cases related to non-observance of some legal provisions
MOLDOVA LOSING GROUND IN CIVIL FREEDOM RATING – FREEDOM HOUSE Moldova was included in the list of partly-free countries, scoring 58 points of 100 possible. This is said in the research “Freedom in the World 2019”, published by experts of the American nongovernmental organization Freedom House. In comparison with 2018, Moldova lost 3 points, demonstrating average results in the basic rates of the rating, such as the civil liberties and
Decision of the Constitutional Court demonstrates double standards of justice The Constitutional Court’s decision to class as inadmissible the application filed by ombudsman Mihail Cotorobai by which he asked to examine the constitutionality of the legal provisions that ban the Moldovans from the diaspora from voting with the identity card and expired identification papers reveals the use of double standards, stated expert in public policies Ștegan Gligor, IPN reports. He
Statement of PACE pre-electoral delegation A pre-electoral delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that visited Chisinau to assess the election campaign and the preparations for the Parliamentary elections to be held on 24 February 2019 was informed about a number of long-standing concerns which still remain unaddressed In particular, cases of intimidation and violence against candidates; cases of hate speech, including against women candidates; cases
Over 80% of lawyers do not believe in independence of judges An opinion poll shows over 80% of the respondents do not think the judges in Moldova are independents and only 17% of those surveyed have an opposite opinion. As regards the solutions of Moldovan judges, 35% of the lawyers consider them equitable and adopted without influences from outside, while 64% do not agree with such an assertion. The poll
