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Let All of Us Say NO to Torture in Moldova: Civil Society against Torture

Project Description
In the framework of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in the Republic of Moldova, the Institute for Democracy (Comrat), in partnership with the National Institute for Women of Moldova (Chisinau) and the Media Center (Transnistrian region) with the support of the European Union, the project "Let All of Us Say NO to Torture in Moldova: Civil Society against Torture" was launched. The goal of the project is to edge off torture in the Republic of Moldova, including in Transnistria.
Specific Objective
- To contribute to offer direct legal and psychological assistance to victims of torture and their social rehabilitation.
- To contribute to increase public awareness of inadmissibility of torture.
- To contribute to implement the provisions of international acts on inadmissibility of torture and the recommendations of the UN Committee against Torture in Moldova.
- To contribute to create an NGO network focused on combating torture and capacity building of the network members.
- To contribute to improve the professional level of the organizations involved in protection against torture.
- To contribute to capacity building activities for the People’s Advocate Office (Ombudsmen Office) and their staff.
- To contribute to improve the knowledge of policemen and law students from Moldavian universities (future police officers, prosecutors, judges) on the responsibility for the application of tortures and methods to prevent torture.
- To cultivate intolerant attitude toward torture in the law students.
- To promote the development of the policemen’s unacceptance and the fear of the use of torture in their practice.
Expected Results
- To create three regional centers for offering direct legal, psychological, and rehabilitation assistance to victims of torture (real and prospective) in Chisinau, Gagauzia, and Transnistria. Addresses of centers: Chisinau - 71 Bucuresti str. (Tel. 067203040); Comrat - 21/3 Tretiacova str. (Tel. 078899110); Tiraspol - 12/12 Shevchenko str. (Tel. 077973007).
- Workshops for staff of detention centers, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and policemen to raise their awareness of the liability for torture.
- Interactive workshops for law students from Moldavian universities (as future policemen, judges and prosecutors) to raise their intolerance toward torture.
- Workshops for inmates, mental asylum patients, and children from boarding houses to teach them legal methods of opposing torture.
- Extensive public awareness campaign for increasing social intolerance towards torture and raising public awareness of the necessity of the importance of the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture.
- To create a permanently working NGO Network for combating torture and capacity building for Network members.
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PROJECT DETAILS
Moldova
Priority Area:
Partnership that protects, Partnership that empowers
Subsector:
Rule of law & human rights, Civil society
Topic:
Human rights, Civil society
Project Status:
Completed
Start Date:
01.12.2017
End Date:
30.11.2020
EU Project Number:
388-469