The government response to COVID-19 raised human rights concerns, including in relation to the right to health and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and movement. No progress was made in addressing systemic torture and other ill-treatment. A new NGO law passed following civil society input....

Reacting to news that Moldova’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s Criminal Code which redefine “high treason,” Veaceslav Tofan, Executive Director of Amnesty International Moldova, said: “The amendment to Moldova’s Criminal Code adopted by the parliament is alarming. The broadened...

The Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and a pervasive focus on ‘traditional values’ have contributed to a deterioration in human rights and rising levels of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Amnesty International said...

The Moldovan authorities must urgently rectify their failure to identify and bring to justice those involved in the shocking unlawful rendition of seven Turkish nationals in September 2018, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly repressive government, said Amnesty International. On 8...

Marking ten years since the brutal crackdown on post-election protests in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on 6 to 8 April 2009 during which hundreds of peaceful protesters were arrested and ill-treated in custody, resulting in at least one death, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for...

The Moldovan authorities ignored their international human rights obligations when they detained and deported seven Turkish nationals reportedly seeking asylum in Moldova this morning, said Amnesty International. The news follows today’s police raid on the Turkish high school ‘Orizont’ in...

The Moldovan authorities must ensure that yesterday’s historic Pride march in the capital Chisinau is the “first of many” and is followed up by other steps to combat homophobic discrimination, Amnesty International said today.Around 100 people participated in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

The Moldovan government should reverse a move by four local councils effectively to ban outright demonstrations by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, Amnesty International said. In the course of the past two weeks local councils in the city of Bălţi, the villages of...

Moldova has taken a welcome step towards tackling gross human rights violations by ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, said Amnesty International. “It is good to see that Moldova has committed  to international justice and working to end impunity for genocide, crimes...

Amnesty International has condemned a Moldovan appeal court’s decision to uphold a ban on an upcoming pro-equality march due to “security and public morality concerns”.Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists had planned to attend the demonstration on Sunday in the capital,...

The authorities in Moldova have threatened to arrest a group of civil society activists who organized a peaceful demonstration, blaming them for the rioting that followed the next day. The group had informed the authorities about the planned demonstration of several hundred people near government...

Europe has taken a further step towards protecting people who have been trafficked with the entry into force of a new convention on Friday. The 14 states that have so far become parties to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings have committed themselves to...