UPR Sexual Rights Database

The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls recommended introducing targeted intersectional and gender-sensitive measures to create more opportunities for women to gain access to formal employment, especially in rural areas, and to integrate women from marginalized communities, such as Roma women and migrant and refugee women, into the labour market. It recommended introducing additional and targeted measures to ensure a work-life balance for women, especially for single mothers who were primary caregivers – including introducing flexible working conditions, ensuring access to childcare facilities, and undertaking awareness-raising activities to encourage the use of parental leave by fathers. [Para 34]

Establish adequate legislative measures, which guarantee women’s property rights after divorce, particularly in the case of unregistered marriages.

In 1999, the HR Committee recommended that Romania take all necessary measures to protect and rehabilitate these children, guarantee them a name, and to ensure that all births are duly registered in Romania. [Para 35]

Adopt a comprehensive national strategy on sexual and reproductive health, which includes, among other issues, comprehensive sexuality education, access to safe abortion, and access to contraception.

Continue efforts to prevent and eradicate trafficking in persons, including for the labour and sexual exploitation of children.

Take urgent and effective interventions to further reduce mother and child mortality and morbidity.

Ensure that violence against Roma women is an area of intervention of the National Strategy for Inclusion of Romanian Citizens Belonging to the Roma Minority, and that it includes specific measures of prevention and combating all forms of violence, including domestic violence and trafficking.

Uphold efforts to conduct awareness-raising campaigns, towards preventing and combating violence against women.

Both the National Strategy for Improving the Roma Situation and the National Health Program include measures regarding reproductive health and the establishment of education and information centers for family health. The main beneficiaries of these centers are Roma women. The Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with the organization "Romani CRISS", also established a system of Roma health mediators (RHMs), in order to facilitate the communication between members of Roma community and the health personnel, to improve their access to health care services and to educate them on health related issues. RHMs are women with completed mandatory education, selected on the basis of community leaders' recommendations. [Para 34]

Take urgent measures to fight trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, including through international and regional cooperation, also with countries of destination in order to prevent the spread of this phenomenon and work to prosecute perpetrators.

The HR Committee ... requested information on any remedies provided to victims in such cases [exploitation of children]. The Committee also reiterated its recommendation of 2017 that Romania strengthen measures aimed at eliminating the economic exploitation of children, such as child labour, begging and sexual exploitation, and sanction those responsible for such exploitation. [Para 72]

JS4 recommended investing in childcare facilities and multiplying the social assistance facilities for persons with disabilities and older persons so that women can fully participate in the labor market. [Para 28]