About 95% of the Moldovans consider the human rights in Moldova arte violated systematically or occasionally. The rights to health, to elect and be elected and to social protection were most often violated during the past two years, shows a sociological study presented by the Ombudsman’s Office, IPN reports.

According to Ombudsman Mihail Cotorobai, the situation remained almost the same as in 2016, when a similar study was carried out. The people consider the state should devote more attention to the right to health, the right to education and the access to information. They are also concerned about the hampering of access to justice.

About 80% of the respondents consider the improvement of the human rights situation depends on Parliament. This is followed by the Government and each citizen apart. The lowest number of respondents consider this depends on the church. The Government and Parliament are also perceived as the institutions that most often violate the human rights, followed by judges, police officers and functionaries of the mayor’s office.

The respondents consider the greatest attention should be devoted to the observance of the rights of children, elderly people and women. They are less empathic for the rights of persons from the LGBT community.

As regards the equality between women and men, more than half of the respondents consider these are equal. About 30% of those polled consider the situation of men is better. The perception is that the women are discriminated mainly in the employment process, at the workplace and also in the family.

Attending the presentation of the study, MP Vladimir Țurcan, who heads the Parliament’s commission on human rights and interethnic relations, said a lot of work was done in the field of human rights during the past two years and the results are thus disappointing. It is very important for the future Parliament to make more effort so that the people are convinced that their rights are respected.

The survey covered a sample of 1,000 persons and has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.1%. The data will be included in the annual report of the Ombudsman’s Office that will be presented in Parliament.