• Human Rights in Romania

    Romania’s government drew international criticism after it attempted to strip the constitutional court of its powers to overrule some parliamentary decisions, and without following the procedure set out in law replaced the ombudsman before he was due to step down, with a party loyalist. Romanian authorities continue to deny allegations they housed a secret CIA prison to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects, despite media investigations identifying its former location in Bucharest. Discrimination and marginalization of Roma is widespread, particularly in housing, where forced evictions of Roma are commonplace.

  • EU: Human Rights Sidelined Amid Crisis
    Jan 31, 2013
    National and European Union (EU) leaders failed to address serious human rights concerns in the region amid economic and political crisis in 2012, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013. Human Rights Watch documented human rights concerns in the EU, highlighting events in 10 member states and EU-level developments in migration and asylum, discrimination and intolerance, and counterterrorism policy.
  • Romania: Reject Discriminatory Definition of Family
    Feb 6, 2008
    Romanian legislators should reject a change to the Family Code that would narrow the definition of marriage to one exclusively between a man and woman, Human Rights Watch said in a letter sent today to government officials. The measure would deprive many Romanian families of basic civil rights and introduce inequality into law.
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  • Divided We Fall: Intolerance in Europe Puts Rights at Risk
    Feb 14, 2013
    An Afghan migrant is stabbed in the heart on the streets of Athens. Black-shirted paramilitaries linked to Hungary’s third-largest political party march through a Roma neighborhood shouting, “You will die here.” A neo-Nazi gang commits a string of murders of Turkish immigrants in Germany. An ideologue driven by hatred of “multiculturalism” kills 67 mostly young people on a Norwegian Island.
  • EU: Human Rights Sidelined Amid Crisis
    Jan 31, 2013
    National and European Union (EU) leaders failed to address serious human rights concerns in the region amid economic and political crisis in 2012, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2013. Human Rights Watch documented human rights concerns in the EU, highlighting events in 10 member states and EU-level developments in migration and asylum, discrimination and intolerance, and counterterrorism policy.
  • EU Action on Member States Limited by Political Will, Not Tools
    Jul 19, 2012
    Sir, the article “Romania illustrates limits of EU power” on July 15 asserts that the EU has few options when it comes to tackling individual member states who flout its rules.
  • Universal Periodic Review of Romania
    May 4, 2008
    This submission will focus only on Human Rights Watch’s key concerns regarding Romania’s compliance with international human rights law in its treatment of children and youth living with HIV. It draws on research and recommendations presented in greater detail in our August 2006 report, Life Doesn’t Wait: Romania’s Failure to Protect and Support Children and Youth Living with HIV
  • Romania: Reject Discriminatory Definition of Family
    Feb 6, 2008
    Romanian legislators should reject a change to the Family Code that would narrow the definition of marriage to one exclusively between a man and woman, Human Rights Watch said in a letter sent today to government officials. The measure would deprive many Romanian families of basic civil rights and introduce inequality into law.
  • Letter to the Romanian Government Urging Protection of All Families without Discrimination
    Feb 6, 2008
    On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I urge you to reject the proposed amendment to the definition of the family in Romania’s family code, a legislative initiative that would write discriminatory treatment of families into law.
  • Council of Europe Confirms Secret CIA Prisons
    Jul 1, 2007
  • Council of Europe: Secret CIA Prisons Confirmed
    Jun 6, 2007
    The Central Intelligence Agency secretly operated illegal prisons for terrorism suspects in multiple locations in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005, according to a report released today by the Council of Europe, a European intergovernmental human rights body.
  • European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity
    Feb 11, 2007
    The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Testimony to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe regarding Romanian children and youth living with HIV
    Oct 4, 2006
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