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Consortium for the Prevention of Torture

Name of Organization: 
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Moldova (MHC)
Independent Society for Education and Human Rights (SIEDO)
International Society for Human Rights - Moldavian Section
League for Defence of Human Rights of Moldova
Resource Center of Moldovan Non-governmental organisations for Human Rights (CReDO)
Geographical Scope: 
Regions:
Country:
Purpose: 
Objectives:
 
  1. To build up places of detention staff awareness and skills of European human rights detention standards
  2. To contribute to changes of attitude of the Moldovan general society and policy makers towards detainees
  3. To improve the legal framework related to prevention of torture in detention, detention procedural guarantees and access to justice in detention
  4. To facilitate social and psychological rehabilitation redress for detainees
  5. To promote of pluralism at civil society level by strengthening institutions and organisations
 
Target population:
 
  1. persons in detention
  2. persons in pre-trial detention
  3. law enforcement officials and executive personnel
  4. media and general society
 
Needs:
 
  1. Moldovan criminal and administrative procedural and substantive laws lack essential guarantees of the personal guarantees, prevention of torture and access to justice in the places of detention.
  2. Law enforcement personnel have insufficient knowledge and skills of human rights and European standards of human rights.
  3. Personnel of penitentiaries has insufficient understanding of need to establish positive relations between the detainees and the personnel; there is no strategy of preventing accumulation of violence and intimidation among detainees due to lack of psychological and cultural communication.
  4. The CPT Report and the response of the Government highlighted the misunderstanding of the Moldovan authorities as a whole the difficult economic conditions and their affection on certain civil obligations.
  5. Moldovan organisations are small and therefore to effectively address comprehensively a bigger concern there is a need for a consolidated common effort in this case and developing and strengthening the co-operative actions while working on other issues human rights related.
Website of initiative: 
http://www.credo.md/pagini/actiuni.php?limba=eng&id=10
Publications: 
Executive reports of the Consortium:
 
Final report on Activities; 2004 Plan of Activities; 2003 Executive report; 2002 Executive Report. http://www.credo.md/pagini/actiuni.php?limba=eng&id=10 http://www.iatp.md/ladom/bulletins/
Cost (specify currency): 
594 805.14 EUR
Funding sources: 
European Commission, UK Embassy in Chisinau, other.
Source of Data: 
Using a combination of own and existing data
Type of Data Collection: 
Events registration
Focus groups
In depth interviews
Specifications of type of data collection: 
  1. documentary visits and the situation assessment in various places of detention
  2. complaints and legal assistance
  3. state available statistics
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 
  1. know how in carrying out documentation visits and in-depth interviewing (each 3 months)
  2. statistics of the complaints from places of detention, nature of complaints
  3. feedback on TV and radio programs by the listeners/watchers
  4. feedback and reaction from the participants to various events
List of Indicators: 
reports with detailed assessment of the situations (legal, institutional, case studies, conclusions and recommendations)
 
drafted legal amendments (number of amendments and their justifications, proposals considered)
Main Users: 
Policy makers

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