Moldovan parliament approves national action plan in human rights sector for 2018-2022
16:59 | 24.05.2018 Category: Social
Chisinau, 24 May /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament today approved the national action plan in the human rights sector for 2018-2022.
The document contains 31 strategic goals and targets from 16 intervention fields. This is third act of public policies, which is aimed at ensuring the observance and promotion of human rights in Moldova.
According to the authors, recommendations by the UN Human Rights Council from October 2016, as well as recommendations formulated by other international mechanisms of monitoring the human rights stayed at the basis of working out the plan.
The national action plan in the human rights sector for 2018-2020 is a national-level document of policies, elaborated by a working groups made up of representatives of the civil society and development partners, who have the human rights among their priorities.
The government, in a two-month period, is to create the National Human Rights Council, in charge of monitoring and assessing the implementation of the national action plan in the human rights sector for 2018-2022 and other documents of national policies in the human rights field. The National Human Rights Council annually till 1 April will present to parliament the report on the degree of implementation of the national action plan in the human rights sector for 2018-2022.
(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)
