A Coalition for Inclusion and Nondiscrimination (CIN), which is a new nucleus of civil society in the fight against discrimination and which consists of 14 nongovernmental organizations and a private individual, started work. The Coalition’s goal is to contribute to the protection and promotion of the human rights and freedoms and to the designing and consistent implementation of a nondiscriminatory legal framework in the Republic of Moldova. The CIN aims to analyze all the recommendations formulated for the Republic of Moldova by international and regional organizations responsible for the monitoring of human rights treaties for preventing and fighting discrimination.
Until 2021, the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) will manage the Coalition’s secretariat. In a news conference at IPN, lawyer Gheorghina Drumea, of the IDOM, said that this newly formed coalition will consolidate the civil society’s efforts aimed at promoting the principle of equality and at combating discrimination. “The Coalition’s mission is to contribute to devising and consistently implementing a nondiscriminatory legal framework in the Republic of Moldova and to promoting positive international nondiscrimination practices. The Coalition’s efforts will be primarily aimed at sensitizing society, including the public authorities, to the necessity and promotion of legislative amendments,” stated Gheorghina Drumea.
The initiative to create the coalition was formulated by East-Europe Foundation. Programs coordinator Dina Shevchenko-Donțu said East-Europe Foundation is known for a multitude of initiatives aimed at uniting the nongovernmental organizations that promote democracy, human rights, good governance, economic prosperity, etc. “The necessity of building this coalition derives from the current reality that is a sad one regrettably. The Republic of Moldova faces challenges and real necessities for creating and implementing an efficient anti-discrimination system. The antidiscrimination system plays a basic role in organizing societies based on democratic principles. We decided to create this coalition so as to transmit messages and public calls to the authorities as these put off the adoption of amendments that are extremely necessary for the national legislation concerning the undertaking of standards defined by the international human rights treaties,” stated Dina Shevchenko-Donțu.
Alina Andronache, of the Center “Partnership for Development” (CPD), one of the founders of the Coalition, presented the manifesto of the CIN members that contains 28 legislative priorities that should be implemented by the authorities during at most a year. The priorities are related to the ratification of international instruments and the prevention and punishment of hate speech, ensuring of the rights and social inclusion of marginalized groups, etc. “What we wanted is to have these priorities, proposals, areas of activity on which we will center within the Coalition in 2021 by a common effort. At the same time, they represent those demands and legislative proposals that we will promote by a common advocacy effort,” stated Alina Andronache.
The Coalition is launched as part of the project “Advocacy for Better Protection against Discrimination” that is implemented in partnership with the CPD, being financed by the European Union and co-financed by Sweden.
