More than 30 civil society organizations compiled alternative reports with findings and recommendations on the human rights in Moldova. These were submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council and are to be examined this year. The Government of Moldova is to present the country report in Geneva this July, IPN reports.
After all the reports are analyzed, the Human Rights Council will formulate recommendations for Moldova. The issue was discussed in a press club meeting staged by the Independent Journalism Center and UN in Moldova.
“The last time the Human Rights Council listed 122 recommendations for Moldova. I intuit that this time the figure will be higher and the recommendations will not repeat as the organizations that submitted alternative reports cooperated and made effort not to formulate identical recommendations in their reports,” said Olesea Perean, expert of the Moldova Human Rights Information Center.
The representatives of the Office of the People’s Ombudsman said their alternative report this year addressed new aspects that weren’t treated earlier. “We referred for the first time to the rights to an adequate standard of living, health and access to water of a high quality. We consider the progress made by Moldova in the area of human rights is modest,” stated Dumitru Roman, deputy head of the Office’s Reforms, Policy and Reporting Division.
The Universal Periodic Review is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council aimed at improving the human rights situation on the ground of each of the 192 UN Member States. Under this mechanism, the human rights situation of all UN Member States is reviewed every 4.5 years.
