Survey shows civil and political rights are most frequently violated in Moldova

The civil and political rights of the citizens were most often violated in 2006-2007. Until 2001, the people saw their social and economic rights most frequently violated. This is one of the conclusions of the human rights observation monitoring conducted by the League for the Defence of Human Rights of Moldova (LADOM) and the Civic Initiative for Defending and Promoting Human Rights in Moldova. At a national conference held on December 14 to mark the finalisation of the monitoring, LADOM chairman Paul Strutzescu said that most often the human rights are violated by public functionaries and representatives of the law effacement bodies. Therefore, the citizens do not have access to justice in the country and they appeal to international courts, the cited source said. The observers say that the citizens do not know how to defend their rights and most of the times prefer not to appeal to the court when their rights are violated. Iurie Craciuneac, chairman of the Association for Combating Informational Isolation, says that most of the human rights violations in Cahul district refer especially to employees’ rights. At the same time, Caliniac Svetlana, head of the Soroca-based “Contact” Centre, says that consumers’ rights are the most frequently violated rights. The monitoring report describes the human rights situation in a number of areas such as: access to justice, right to life, trafficking in human beings, discrimination, gender equality, right to association, access to information, detainees’ rights, freedom of press etc. According to the chairman of LADOM, the report will be published by this yearend and will be sent to the authorities, international agencies, diplomatic mission, NGOs. The monitoring was carried out by the group of nongovernmental organizations working in different areas that set up the Civic Initiative for Defending and Promoting Human Rights in Moldova late last year and by ten jurists employed by LADOM.