Group of Resources for Human Rights insists on adoption of Antidiscrimination Law

The Government of Moldova should immediately adopt the bill know as the Antidiscrimination Law, the secretary of the Group of Resources for Human Rights Sergiu Rusanovski said in connection with the UN Human Rights Council’s recommendations that the executive pledged to implement, Info-Prim Neo reports. “If these recommendations are not taken seriously, we will continue to insist on them at national and international levels by establishing partnerships with different international organizations, like the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International,” Sergiu Rusanovski said in a news conference on Wednesday. Iuliana Marcinski, coordinator of the project “Promotion of the Nondiscrimination Policy in Moldova”, said that the report presented by Moldova to the Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council in March referred to legislation, strategies and plans, rather to what has changed in certain areas. “When we analyzed the report, we could not formulate recommendations because the state’s recommendations were vague and blurred. The quality of the consultations is more important. The Government consulted civil society partially and the document included the final position of the executive. It was sent to representatives of civil society only two days before the Human Rights Council’s session,” said Iuliana Marcinski. As regards the access to education in the mother tongue for the ethnic and linguistic minorities, the Government mentioned only the Russian teaching schools and the mixed ones, avoiding saying that there is no teaching in the languages of the ethnic groups. The law on the freedom of conscience, thinking and religion continues to prevent the foreigners living in Moldova form registering a denomination, but the authorities hurried to say that this limitation was removed from the law. The Universal Periodic Review report on the human rights in Moldova was adopted within the 19 session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 23. The report contains 122 recommendations on the human rights and freedoms. The Government promised to present a report on the implementation of the recommendations within two years and to further support the UN mechanism for examining the human rights situation, including in the cooperation with civil society and the international partners.