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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Domestic violence
Type:Review DocumentationSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:NeglectedContents:Ensure greater protection and assistance to victims of domestic violence by efficient implementation of the Penal Code provisions and the opening of shelters. [Para 15] -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:BelgiumBelgiumRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUOIFIssue:
- Discrimination based on gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Amend ordinance No 137/2000 on preventing and sanctioning all forms of discrimination to include gender identity as one of the grounds of discrimination.
ExplanationNoted. ... with the explanation that there is a need to examine in detail the domestic legal framework in relation to the complaints filed by the applicants. In addition, there is a need to thoroughly examine the legal avenues to execute the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights. ... Romania upholds its position that a revision of the anti-discrimination law is not necessary, after careful assessment by the National Council for Combatting Discrimination. Under the European Convention on Human Rights and European Union law, in light of the case-law at European and domestic level, acts of discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation fall within the scope of the protection of the national anti-discrimination law.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:IcelandIcelandRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Sexual violence
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Amend the Criminal Code to define the crime of rape by lack of consent.
ExplanationThe Romanian Criminal Code defines the rape as the sexual intercourse, oral or anal intercourse with a person, committed by constraint, by rendering the person in question unable to defend themselves or to express their will or by taking advantage of such state; the lack of the victim’s valid consent is thus implied.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:AlbaniaAlbaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupOICOIFIssue:
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Adopt and implement further policies and strategies for protecting women from harassment in the workplace.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:GermanyGermanyRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Gender equality
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Adopt as soon as possible the National Strategy for promoting equality of opportunity and equal treatment between women and men and for preventing and combatting domestic violence 2021–2027.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:CzechiaCzechiaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUIssue:
- Intersex persons' rights
- Discrimination based on sexual orientation
- Discrimination based on gender identity
- Violence on the basis of sexual orientation
- Violence on the basis of gender identity
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Create and employ a common methodology for law enforcement officials in order to effectively investigate and prosecute hate crimes, especially against LGBTI+ and Roma.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:SwitzerlandSwitzerlandRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupOIFIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Training for state personnel on sexual rights issues
- Domestic violence
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Accelerate the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, including by making available sufficient resources, monitoring protection orders, ensuring the full functionality of services for victims in the form of qualified personnel sensitized to gender issues, and fighting against all forms of intersectional discrimination affecting, in particular, Roma women.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:TurkmenistanTurkmenistanRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupCISOICIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:RecommendationSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Harmonise gender equality for guaranteeing their equal rights.ExplanationNoted. 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.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:NorwayNorwayRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:RecommendationSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:AcceptedContents:Provide funding and human resources in rural areas to reduce and eliminate disparities, with particular focus on access to education, access to birth registration and abolishment of classroom segregation.Explanationfunding and human resources in education are provided without discrimination. There are no specific or distinct budgets for rural areas. However, additional funding for schools in rural areas is provided. The law forbids classroom segregation. Fully acknowledging the needs and particular challenges faced by disadvantaged communities, including in rural areas, affirmative measures and policies are in place to narrow the disparities and foster equal chances, especially on access to basic services, education, health, housing, transportation. -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:TunisiaTunisiaRegional groupAfrica GroupPolitical groupAUOICALOIFIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:RecommendationSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:AcceptedContents:Continue efforts to ensure gender equality and promote women’s rights. -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:IraqIraqRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupPolitical groupOICALIssue:
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Domestic violence
Type:RecommendationSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:AcceptedContents:Strengthen programmes to fight domestic violence. -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:United KingdomUnited KingdomRegional groupWEOGPolitical groupEUCommonwealthIssue:
- Transgender persons' rights
Type:QuestionSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:N/AContents:What steps is the Romanian government taking to ensure that transgender people have access to timely procedures for legal gender recognition? -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:29th Session, January 2018Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents:[CEDAW] recommended that Romania study the root causes that prevent women from participating in public and political life, and design strategies to overcome such barriers. The CESCR that Romania introduce temporary special measures, such as quotas, to promote gender equality. [Para 50] -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
- Training for state personnel on sexual rights issues
- Right to health
Type:Review DocumentationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Reference AddressedContents:The Working Group recommended ensuring full access to quality health-care services for all women and girls. It recommended that Romania take all appropriate legislative and educational measures to end discrimination against Roma women and girls in access to health care – such as training health professionals, creating accessible complaint mechanisms, sanctioning discriminatory practices, and increasing the number of Roma health mediators. [Para 45]
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- HIV and AIDS
Type:Review DocumentationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Reference AddressedContents:JS6 recommended launching public information campaigns on negative prejudice and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS. [Para 14]
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:Stakeholder SummaryIssue:
- Birth registration
Type:Review DocumentationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Reference AddressedContents:JS5 recommended that Romania remove all practical barriers to birth registration, with a particular focus on minority groups, so that all children are registered immediately regardless of their parents’ documentation or residence status. [Para 75]
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
- Gender perspective in policies, programmes
Type:Review DocumentationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Not Followed up with a RecommendationContents: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]
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:Costa RicaCosta RicaRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- International human rights instruments
Type:RecommendationSession:15th session, February 2013Status:RejectedContents:Consider ratifying OP-ICESCR. -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:PeruPeruRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIIssue:
- Gender equality
- Violence against women / gender-based violence
- Women's participation
Type:RecommendationSession:15th session, February 2013Status:AcceptedContents:Redouble efforts to combat violence against women and girls, and ensure greater representation of women in managerial and decision-making positions.ImplementationNational Report:
Para 88) In the field of domestic violence, the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice, through the National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (NAEO), exercises the functions of strategy, regulation, representation and State authority and has attributions in the elaboration, coordination and implementation of the strategies and policies of the Government.
Para 89) In order to strengthen public policy for eliminating gender based violence, including domestic violence, in 2012, the Romanian Government approved Government Decision no. 1156/2012 for the approval of the National Strategy for prevention and combating of family violence and the Action Plan for implementing the national strategy for prevention and combating of family violence for the period 2013–201726 .
Para 90) By Law no. 30/2016 Romania ratified the Istanbul Convention imposing concrete measures on States Parties to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence. The Istanbul Convention proposes creating mechanisms to guarantee the protection of victims, raise awareness of the effects of the phenomenon, and prevent and combat all forms of violence.
Para 91) In order to carry out the complex legislative steps required by the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, NAEO elaborated the necessary legislative package for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, which includes the modification of the legislation regarding equal opportunities for women and men, on the prevention and combating domestic violence, the modification of the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes.
Para 92) At the same time, the Governance Program for the period 2017–2020 provides a series of measures aimed to preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, and has as a prerequisite the adoption of the draft laws necessary for the harmonization of national legislation with the provisions of the Istanbul Convention and it will be transposed into secondary legislation, as well as the development of social services for victims of domestic violence and aggressors by implementing projects from European funds.
Para 93) Another important task of the NAEO is to finance and/or co-finance programs of national interest in the field of gender equality and prevention and combating domestic violence. A number of projects were and are to be developed in order to raise awareness on this phenomenon.
Para 95) Aspects related to domestic violence are being approached in the framework of the family law organized for the judicial trainees and for the continuous training by the National Institute of Magistracy.
UN Compilation:
Para 50) [CEDAW] was concerned at the continued low representation of women in Parliament, in the Government and in regional and local governments.
Stakeholder Summary:
Para 19) [ACTEDO] noted that despite existing legislation on domestic violence, programmes and services to prevent and combat domestic violence were scarce and poorly funded.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Maternal health / morbidity / mortality
Type:Review DocumentationSession:15th session, February 2013Status:Reference AddressedContents:... It also encouraged Romania to place more attention to prenatal and postnatal services and to develop training in parenting skills, particularly on breastfeeding, nutritious diet, proper hygiene, and early childhood development and survival. [Para 51; CRC] -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:National ReportIssue:
- Marginalized groups of women
Type:Review DocumentationSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:N/AContents:At present, there are 71 persons of Roma ethnicity employed in the structures of the Ministry of Interior - 45 men (11 officers and 34 agents) and 13 women (3 officers and 10 agents). [Para 24] -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:UN CompilationIssue:
- Gender equality
- Women's and / or girls' rights
Type:Review DocumentationSession:2nd session, May 2008Status:NeglectedContents:... In 2006, CEDAW urged Romania, inter alia, to take a holistic approach to eliminating the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that Roma women face and to accelerate achievement of their de facto equality through the coordination of all agencies working on Roma. [Para 8] -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:IcelandIcelandRegional groupWEOGIssue:
- Rights of same-sex desiring persons
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Unclear ResponseContents:Legalize same-sex marriage.
ExplanationNoted. ... with the explanation that there is a need to examine in detail the domestic legal framework in relation to the complaints filed by the applicants. In addition, there is a need to thoroughly examine the legal avenues to execute the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights. -
State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:MexicoMexicoRegional groupGRULACPolitical groupOASOEIACSIssue:
- Sexuality education
- Contraception
- Abortion
- Sexual and / or reproductive rights and / or health broadly
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:Partially AcceptedContents: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.
ExplanationNoted for the part on providing (comprehensive) sexuality/sexual education, as the legal framework does not provide for this concept. The issues pertaining to sexual and reproductive health education will be approached within the compulsory topic of Health education.
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State Under Review:RomaniaRomaniaRegional groupEEGPolitical groupEUOIFSource Of Reference:NepalNepalRegional groupAsia-Pacific GroupIssue:
- Sexual exploitation / slavery
- Trafficking in women and / or girls
Type:RecommendationSession:43rd Session, May 2023Status:AcceptedContents:Continue efforts to prevent and eradicate trafficking in persons, including for the labour and sexual exploitation of children.