A project implemented by HelpAge International in Moldova, with financing from the UN Trust Fund, is designed to enforce the rights of women who were victims of violence. The project will be implemented during the next four years and will offer consultancy to women from eight Moldovan communities so that these acquire skills, knowledge and confidence to seek and benefit from the necessary assistance in preventing and combating violence and/or abuses from competent institutions, IPN reports.
In a press release, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection says deputy minister Anastasia Ocheretnyi said the Republic of Moldova adopted a series of normative acts on the prevention and combating of domestic violence, recognizing thus this phenomenon as a social problem and undertaking to intervene and deal with domestic violence by providing concrete mechanisms and designating the authorities and institutions that would focus on the prevention and combating of this phenomenon.
This year the Republic of Moldova has signed the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. The Convention is to be ratified. There was also drafted a Government decision to approve a national strategy for protecting the elderly people from violence for 2018-2023.
