UPR Sexual Rights Database

The National Health Strategy 2014-2020 has a distinct chapter on HIV/AIDS which focuses on policies and legislation, management and intervention, prevention, monitoring, treatment, nutrition, minimizing the occupational biological risks. The National HIV Programme has been implemented nationwide since 2001.

Noted. ... the Government could not prejudge on the position the legislator will take in the process of ratification. … On the merits, the Romanian party is still in the process of evaluating the changes the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights would imply, from the domestic remedies perspectives and given the complex character of the obligations entailed by the Convention and Covenant respectively.

The Ministry of Education collects data regarding participation in education for persons belonging to national minorities; to combat school dropout, the Ministry implements the National Program for the Reduction of School Dropout, and the measures provided include the identification and registration of at-risk students in the Ministry’s database, as well as the identification and registration of children and youth out of school. The program currently targets lower secondary school students, where the school dropout phenomenon is most acute, and will be expanded to include primary education as well. ... Moreover, the new 2023 Law on Undergraduate Education provides for increased measures to tackle this phenomenon, by establishing the National Integrated Program for the Reduction of School Dropout. Pupils identified as at-risk of school dropout participate in national support programs with priority, such as the "School after School" Program, the "Remedial Learning" Program and benefit from additional support measures and facilities.

Noted. it considers that they have already been complied with. Since its EU integration, Romania transposed all six EU Directives and the European acquis in the field of gender equality. The principles of equal opportunities and equal treatment between women and men are transposed in the national legislation, institutional mechanism, public policies and are reflected at civil society level. Important concepts are regulated by the main legal act in the field, such as: direct and indirect discrimination based on sex, sexual and psychological harassment, equal pay for equal work, positive actions, multiple-discrimination, sex, gender stereotype, gender budgeting. The law also includes specific measures for implementing the gender perspective in the labour market, education, eliminating gender roles and encouraging equal participation of men and women in the decision making process. The National Agency for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men was established in 2015 with a role in implementing public policies and strategies; legislative initiatives; data collection; designing and implementing programs and awareness campaigns ; cooperating with central and local authorities and NGOs. Based on the above, Romania reaffirms its commitment to promote gender equality.