The Department’s mission is to ensure the exercise of the legal duties of the People’s Advocate/People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights by assisting them in the process of improving public policies and national legislation in the field of human rights and freedoms, according to human rights standards and a human rights-based approach.
Core functions:
- improving public policies and normative acts in force to ensure their compliance with human rights and freedoms standards;
- contributing to ensuring that draft public policies and normative acts comply with human rights and freedoms standards;
- monitoring the implementation of public policy documents and normative acts on preventing violations of and ensuring respect for human rights and freedoms;
- promoting the integration of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) into the process of drafting public policies and normative acts within public authorities with the right of legislative initiative.
The Department’s mission is to ensure the exercise of legal duties by the People’s Advocate via monitoring the implementation of and promoting international human rights standards, with a view to influencing the human rights and freedoms situation in the Republic of Moldova.
Core functions:
- monitoring the implementation of international/regional instruments in the area of human rights and freedoms;
- drafting the Report on the Observance of Human Rights and Freedoms in the Republic of Moldova;
- promoting international/regional instruments and the recommendations addressed to the state in the area of human rights and freedoms;
- participating in carrying out complex tasks in accordance with the duties of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights.
The mission of the Department is to ensure the exercise of the legal mandate of the People’s Advocate / People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights in the field of preventing torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Core functions:
- carrying out torture and ill-treatment prevention activities;
- monitoring the national implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
- providing informational and methodological assistance to the members of the Council for the Prevention of Torture;
- carrying out activities to promote zero tolerance for torture.
The mission of the Department is to ensure the exercise of the legal powers of the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights by assisting him in monitoring the national implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and promoting it.
Core functions:
- promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the rights enshrined in it;
- monitoring the national implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
- providing protection and assistance to children in difficulty or at risk.
The mission of the Department for audience and management of documents is to ensure the exercise of the legal powers of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights by examining and investigating the petitions accepted for review, objectively, impartially and in accordance with the standardized procedure.
Core functions:
- primarily examining all registered requests in accordance with admissibility requirements and deciding on the manner of intervention of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights.
- investigating the requests accepted for review, in accordance with the standardized procedure, undertaking measures to restore the rights of persons in respect of whom a violation of human rights and freedoms has been established.
- systematically analyzing requests through the lens of human rights and freedoms.
- promoting human rights and freedoms.
- participating in the accomplishment of complex tasks in accordance with the powers of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights.
The mission of the Department for examination of requests and protection of persons is to…
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The mission of the Department is to proactively promote human rights and freedoms in society and to ensure effective communication between the People’s Advocate Office and its national and international partners.
Core functions:
- planning, organizing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on activities to promote human rights and freedoms in society;
- planning, organizing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting on training activities in the field of human rights and freedoms;
- ensuring communication by the People’s Advocate Office and building partnerships with civil society organizations, public authorities, the media and society at large;
- developing and maintaining cooperation and partnership relations with counterpart organizations in other countries, organizations of National Human Rights Institutions and international human rights organizations.
The UHR’s mission is to contribute on achieving the strategic objectives of the People’s Advocate Office by promoting and implementing effective human resource management.
The mission of the Unit is to provide advices and to ensure the objectives of the effectiveness of the financial management and control system, contributing on gaining value and providing recommendations for its improving.
The Secretariat is established as an autonomous subdivision and it is subordinated directly to the General Secretary; the Service has a seal with indices of its name.
The unit operates in collaboration with the structural subdivisions and representations of the People’s Advocate Office, the public authorities, the individual persons whose rights have been violated on the territory of the Republic of Moldova.
The mission of the Bălți Representative is to promote systemic and structural improvements related to the strategic objectives and priorities set out into the Institutional Plan for Strategic Development by contributing to the achievement of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights in the northern regions of the Republic of Moldova.
The mission of the Cahul Representative is to contribute to the achievement of the People’s Advocate / People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights in the southern districts of the country.
The mission of the Comrat Representative is to contribute to the fulfillment of the duties of the People’s Advocate / People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights in ATU Gagauzia.
The mission of the Varniţa Representative is to ensure the work of the People’s Advocate and the People’s Advocate for Child’s Rights monitoring human/child’s rights and freedoms in the Transnistrian region, including in the security area, to increase the access of people living on the left bank of the Dniester to the People’s Advocate Institution; the development of collaboration with civil society organizations operating in the localities on the left bank of the Dniester River.
