ONGOING PROJECTS
AdaptJust- Accessible Justice for people with disabilities
The general objective of the project is to improve the implementation of the ECtHR and the CoE Committee of Ministers regarding the rights of the persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities deprived of their freedom. The project will increase the capacity of the magistrates and the civil society to defend the rights of the persons with disability, will pilot five actions within a mechanism of protection and will propose an Action Plan to prevent the inhuman, degrading and ill treatments in the state administered institutions where the persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities are placed.
Free to Decide. Transition from guardianship to Supported Decision Making for persons with disabilities
The project aims to increase the capacity of persons with mental disabilities, stroke and dementia to exercise their rights and to maximize their autonomy. The project will develop and pilot four models supported decision making services in collaboration with public and private social service providers.
Ensure the protection and safety of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in risk situations. Advocate for the right to live independently and the right to health.
The project aims at improving the legal and institutional framework on the protection of rights of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities and their right to live independently in the community, improving respect for the right to health for the most vulnerable groups of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities (persons living in congregated facilities, deprived of their liberty or in rural and remote locations) and developing the capacity of the relevant stakeholders in administrative, judiciary and civil society to act for the protection of the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Innovating European lawyers to advance the rights of children with disabilities
Death Camps Next to You
Access to justice for children with mental disabilities
The project aims to ensure access to justice for children with mental disabilities, building on existing guidance and standards related to children, victims of crime and adults with intellectual disabilities.
THE PRACTICAL SCHOOL: Innovation in higher education and success on the labor market
Main objective: Extending the learning opportunities through the Practical School – essential factor for promoting the innovation in higher education, regarding the increase in competitivity and insertion of graduates on the labor market.
PROGRAMME NEWS
Study visit to the Council of Europe: Roma inclusion and empowerment – Standards and cooperation activities 18.09.2023 - From 12-14 September, the Council of Europe Education Department hosted a group of representatives of the EEA/Norway Grant Programme in Romania “Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Increasing Roma Inclusion” on a study visit to the Council of Europe on Roma inclusion and empowerment. CLR, through our colleague Georgiana Bădescu, coordinator of communication activities within the...
Romanian care homes scandal spotlights abuse described as ‘inhumane and degrading’ – AP News 9.08.2023 - BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — After receiving distressed text messages from a young man worried about the conditions his friend was living in at a social care home in central Romania, Georgiana Pascu arranged an impromptu visit to inspect the facility. “In the beginning, we were quite sure there is nothing there,” said Pascu, program manager...
CLR: Meeting with the Prime Minister, Labour Minister and other NGOs 1.08.2023 - Georgiana Pascu, program manager of Advocate for Dignity by CLR, participated yesterday in the consultative meeting with the Prime Minister of Romania, Mr. Marcel Ciolacu, and the Minister of Labour, Ms. Simona Bucura-Oprescu, along with several NGOs, at the Romanian Government. The points discussed, submitted to the Government also in written form by the CLR,...
Căsuța Lu’ Min | PRESS RELEASE 27.07.2023 - It has not been the purpose of the Centre for Legal Resources (CLR) to publicly communicate the main observations today, but following the latest public notice from the responsible authorities, we have to make the subsequent clarifications: As the persons found by the CLR here are not only from Mures Couunty but also from Bucharest...
Report abuses instantlty: CEASUL BUN – mobile app | PRESS RELEASE 25.07.2023 - The Centre for Legal Resources, a non-governmental human rights organisation, in partnership with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, developed within the AdaptJust project – Accessible Justice for Persons with Disabilities – a mobile application, Ceasul bun, designed for persons with disabilities confined in social care homes, medical-social units...
International organisations raise concern over abuses in Ilfov 18.07.2023 - We would like to thank Validity Foundation, a human rights organisation that focuses on the situation of people with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, for its open letter addressed to the Romanian Government and the international community. In defending the rights and dignity of people with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, we consider any form of solidarity...
UN Committee Against Torture: CRJ answers questions on complaints mechanisms, deaths and involuntary commitment 17.07.2023 - Today, 17 July, our colleague Georgiana Pascu participated in a special hearing at the 77th meeting of the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on the implementation in Romania of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Committee was surprised that the CRJ was the only non-governmental human rights...
CLR’s appeal to Romanian authorities: the misuse of controls negatively impacts institutionalized persons with disabilities and older persons. CLR does not want to be associated with the political scandal 17.07.2023 - CLR does not want to be associated with any political scandal on the issue of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities. Over the years, we have drawn attention to all governments, regardless of their political ideology, to the fact that the rights of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities are not respected. The reasons why...
CLR urges the Labour Minister, Marius Constantin Budăi, to resign 9.07.2023 - Open letter to Mr. Marcel Ciolacu, Prime Minister, Government of Romania Dear Prime Minister, The Center for Legal Resources (CLR), a non-governmental human rights organization, founded in 1998 by the Open Society Foundation (Soros), has been running the “Advocate for Dignity” programme since October 2003. In almost 20 years, CLR has been the only organization...
The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) knows the legislation and the social assistance standards for institutionalized persons with disabilities, better then competent authorities 4.07.2023 - DIICOT has become more familiar with the legislation and with the social assistance standards for institutionalized persons with disabilities than the competent authorities have. The recent raids in social care homes (some being private, but financed by public money) where adults and elderly persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities are confined (Vrancea, Park Lake Bucharest)...