Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova

The Programme ”Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova” is in line with the strategic priorities for cooperation as formulated in the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova for 2017-2020, and is funded by the Norwegian government.

It is aimed to ensure a higher respect for human rights and the rule of law by assisting the national authorities in building up an efficiently functioning criminal justice system, in line with European human rights standards, and based on the principles of humanisation, resocialisation and restorative justice.

Main intervention areas will cover policy/legal framework, institutional and practical implementation levels, with the focus on:

Consolidation of criminal justice policy, legislation and judiciary practice in line with international standards with respect to the liberalization of criminal proceedings, including strengthening the application of non-custodial pre-trial preventive measures and sanctions, alternative sanctions in criminal cases, improvement of probation services and release on parole mechanisms
Better treatment and resocialisation of inmates by improving the regulatory and policy framework as well as prison staff capacities relevant to regime arrangements and management of prisons, implementation of treatment programmes and provision of health care services for inmates;
Support towards the development of the capacities of criminal justice stakeholders in the light of the implementation of the on-going reforms, including judiciary, prosecution service, as well as Ombudsperson’s institution and National Prevention Mechanism (NPM).

The Programme is expected to be implemented in 36 months (as of 1 March 2018).

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Back Revision of a set of Regulations on the provision of health care in prisons in the Republic of Moldova

The Council of Europe is assisting the National Administration of Penitentiaries of the Republic of Moldova to revise and further develop a set of Regulations in the sector of provision of health care in prisons. During the first meeting of the Working Group (WG), which took place on 12-13 November 2018 in Chisinau, the participants assessed the scope of the Regulation on the provision of medical assistance to persons deprived of liberty, in accordance with their current needs within the penitentiary system and also the need to bring the provision of health care in prisons in line with the Council of Europe and other international standards. Furthermore, the members of the WG reconfirmed the need to develop a Regulation on the management and circulation of medicines within the penitentiary system in Moldova, which is not currently regulated. As end of the first two-day session, participants agreed on the content and the preliminary structure of both Regulations.

The WG session was attended by the representatives of specialised Department of the National Administration of Penitentiaries of the Republic of Moldova, the Deputy Head of the Prison Hospital (prison no. 16) and the Head of the Medical Service of Prison no. 15. The session was facilitated by three Council of Europe consultants.

The WG session was organised under the auspices of the programme “Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova”, funded by the Government of Norway and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Chisinau 12-13 November