{"id":3677,"date":"2015-02-01T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/?page_id=3677"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:58:57","slug":"media-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/en\/advocate-for-dignity\/media-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">February, 2025 &#8211; Digi24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From family to institution. State abuse under the guise of protection in the case of the children from Mures: separated from their parents due to the &#8220;absence of services in the community&#8221;. Watch the Digi24 coverage:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 120px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/sanatate\/pacient-in-romania\/dezvaluiri-revoltatoare-in-cazul-centrelor-groazei-din-mures-copii-tinuti-in-conditii-inumane-hraniti-cu-alimente-expirate-3106541\" data-iframely-url=\"\/\/iframely.net\/DIsB86l\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/iframely.net\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interviews concerning the situation of the children with disabilities, institutionalised in Mure\u0219 County<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What will happen to the 63 children with disabilities in centers in T\u00e2rgu-Mure\u0219? Centre for Legal Resources has drawn public attention to the inhumane conditions in which these children are being kept. The Social Inspectorate says specific solutions must be found for each child. What does that mean? Andreea Orosz spoke to Georgiana Pascu from CLR and Doru Constantin, spokesperson at DGASPC Mure\u0219.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v22.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1159549795800156\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 13, Georgiana Pascu, program manager at Advocate for Dignity, spoke with journalist Vitalie Cojocari from Euronews about the situation documented by CLR in the foster care centers for children with disabilities in Mures County during the program Voices that Matter:<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nux_dMpm7ps?rel=0\" style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Advocate for Dignity program manager Georgiana Pascu&#8217;s intervention on the program Prim-plan obiectiv, about the lack of adequate services for children and the CLR&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OrofP-XN4xw?rel=0\" style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgiana Pascu discusses CLR&#8217;s findings at the foster care centers for children in Mure\u0219 county for Antena3.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ViLOXWUNLSM?rel=0\" style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about the context <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/en\/media-advocacy\/\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">17.12.2024 &#8211; Focus, TVR Cluj<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>This year, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed unanimously a resolution that member states should recognize abuse in their countries, provide financial compensation to those affected, undertake a comprehensive reassessment and improve work to prevent abuse. &#8220;In Europe, the abuse of children, whether they are victims of sexual predators, violence or mistreatment in public, private or religious institutions &#8211; which should be safe havens &#8211; must never again be ignored,&#8221; says Council of Europe Resolution 2533. This resolution is a major change for Europe&#8221;, says Guido Fluri, President of the Justice Initiative: &#8220;In Switzerland, thanks to the consistent processing of the files of 12,000 victims of abuse, justice has been partly done. Now it is time for survivors of abuse in the rest of Europe to get justice too.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romanian parliamentarians and governments will have to recognize the suffering endured by survivors of abuse in communist care institutions and in the years that followed. For Resolution 2533 (2024) to be implemented, the parliament will have to pass a law formally apologizing to past and present victims, investing in research into the causes that led to the abuses in communist orphanages and providing compensation to survivors. <b><strong>The government must support abuse prevention and public awareness-raising, including by enabling and funding unannounced monitoring by human rights and survivor NGOs of all institutions where children are placed, to minimize risks and respond quickly to abuse.<\/strong><\/b> We extend our thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/InstitutuldeInvestigareaCrimelorComunismului?__cft__[0]=AZW5obEoMMnNplifrimx5tRJyqQID6B4kD6vV3cESY7GgHLpgVaqcTdEZbnIKXqkaUnmGa-D9XAEdZilM1CMN0Dducx5y58_IMy6LnD4Nd3N78jfE5rw_-PeosrAJhPHB0k4SzVBp82VrXncyMslptt_wJ23D9DeXfKaNHCYAHqIQw&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\"><b>Institute for the Investigation of Crimes of Communism<\/b><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crjro?__cft__[0]=AZW5obEoMMnNplifrimx5tRJyqQID6B4kD6vV3cESY7GgHLpgVaqcTdEZbnIKXqkaUnmGa-D9XAEdZilM1CMN0Dducx5y58_IMy6LnD4Nd3N78jfE5rw_-PeosrAJhPHB0k4SzVBp82VrXncyMslptt_wJ23D9DeXfKaNHCYAHqIQw&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\"><b>Legal Resource Center<\/b><\/a> for their participation and their very well researched and unequivocally expressed message in support of victims in protection institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInitiativeRomania\/posts\/pfbid02CpLNQpZBLwUtBpQPCouW68msdxc82ZyzcJqgBeanUfoj4MN6KobE8A2LFW5UtptYl\">Justice Initiative Romania<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WRN6NJ_oLPA?si=Au5sFNhXEKB4ropT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.10.2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;A System in Therapy&#8221; dossier, documented by Snoop.ro journalists, explores the mental health system in Romania, with all its pitfalls and improvisations. The third episode in the series examines &#8220;Romania&#8217;s own recipe for deinstitutionalization&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What is still lacking is an overlapping of these systems: the social assistance and child protection system and the psychiatric and health systems (&#8230;) It can be an institution with 100, 50 or 10 places. There&#8217;s no point putting &#8216;sheltered housing&#8217; or &#8216;family-type home&#8217; on the door, if you have staff working shifts, if people can&#8217;t make any decisions about what they eat, where they work, when they can walk out the door, there is an institution. You and I, if we want to walk out the door, we don&#8217;t call anyone to give us permission&#8221; &#8211; Georgiana Pascu, program manager Advocate for Dignity by CRJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snoop.ro\/pacientii-cu-boli-psihice-din-centre-in-azile-oamenii-au-fost-scosi-la-licitatie-pe-loturi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1324\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png 1324w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-900x443.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1324px) 100vw, 1324px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>2.10.2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snoop.ro\/cercul-violentei-sexuale-in-tara-cu-5-violuri-pe-zi-autoritatile-ignora-abuzurile-asupra-femeilor-cu-dizabilitati-si-agresorii-liberi-fac-noi-victime\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1323\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png 1323w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-900x465.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1323px) 100vw, 1323px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">10.04.2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/romania.europalibera.org\/a\/mara-victima-casuta-lui-min-traieste-patronii-cercetati\/32897512.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/434074428_1177187410294005_4048477070633369124_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20189\" width=\"340\" height=\"425\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">9.04.2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/sanatate\/pacient-in-romania\/povestea-cutremuratoare-a-alinei-fata-a-fost-scoasa-dintr-un-azil-gasita-legata-in-altul-si-apoi-uitata-de-sapte-luni-intr-un-spital-2750981\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Alina.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20187\" width=\"508\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Alina.png 1013w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Alina-900x700.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">26.07.2023<\/h3>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Wbusujlhhc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">15.07.2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00cen fa\u021ba ta &#8211; Digi24<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"iframely-embed\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\" style=\"padding-bottom: 52.5%; padding-top: 120px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/emisiuni\/in-fata-ta\/in-fata-ta-16-iulie-invitat-dan-vilceanu-2428663\" data-iframely-url=\"\/\/iframely.net\/GDmio2L\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/iframely.net\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">1.04.2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> F\u0103r\u0103 prejudec\u0103\u021bi, TVR Cluj <\/h4>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1jUBOEdBHVg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">                                                                                                                             8.11.2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Dincolo de Alb \u0219i Negru, TVR 1 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2kbx8E4uHQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">06.10.2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cRecovery death camps prisoners: People bound with chains, without water and heat, while authorities make strategies&#8221; &#8211; TV documentary on Romanian ProTV channel, for the &#8220;Rom\u00e2nia, Te iubesc&#8221; TV show<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2004, in the resolution regarding Romania\u2019s adhering to the European Union, Romania was committing to give special attention to the abandoned children and youth, by taking them out of institutions. Ten years later we have approximately 700 institutions pompously called \u201cCenters for Recovery and Rehabilitation\u201d or of \u201cCare and Assistance\u201d of persons with handicaps, and that host 17.000 adults and 7.000 children. They look like concentration camps or death camps, hidden from people\u2019s eyesight and where free access is denied by the authorities, and in which once you get in as a patient, you get out only by death. Images filmed with the hidden camera in 9 such institutions show that after 24 years since the opening of the extermination camps of children with disabilities, Romania is still handicapped when it comes to giving them a chance to a decent life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the documentary here or on the <a href=\"http:\/\/romaniateiubesc.stirileprotv.ro\/emisiuni\/2014\/sezonul-2\/prizonierii-lagarelor-de-recuperare-oameni-tinuti-in-lanturi-fara-apa-si-caldura-in-timp-ce-oficialii-fac-strategii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show&#8217;s page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/romaniateiubesc.stirileprotv.ro\/lbin\/video_embed.php?media_id=61580014&amp;section=20610&amp;video_section_id=\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">17.04.2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cEurope&#8217;s Hidden Shame\u201d &#8211; An undercover investigation conducted&nbsp;by Al Jazeera reveals disturbing evidence about the abuse of disabled people in Romania.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch here or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/obXewZYWLeY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>. Find out&nbsp;more on Al Jazeera page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/peopleandpower\/2014\/04\/europe-hidden-shame-2014414124139195247.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe&#8217;s Hidden Shame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People &amp; Power - Europe Hidden Shame\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obXewZYWLeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 year ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cOpening the Courtroom Doors for People with Disabilities\u201d &#8211; A&nbsp;New Media Advocacy Project<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch here or on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/73311007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>. Find out more about New Media Advocacy Project&#8217;s work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmediaadvocacy.org\/category\/work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73311007\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">19.05.2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cUnrecoverable Romania\u201d \u2013 TV documentary by Antena 3 Romanian TV channel, for \u201c\u00cen Premier\u0103\u201d TV show<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c23 years have passed since the West discovered the Romanian \u2018horror orphanages\u2019. The children then considered by the system \u2018unrecoverable\u2019 have become adults, each of them with their fate, depending of the country it has lived. We invite you to discover how some have been saved by love and how others were condemned to a \u2018unrecoverable\u2019 mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch it here, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UgK3Nzygquk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"http:\/\/inpremiera.antena3.ro\/reportaje\/romania-irecuperabila-209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antena 3&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgK3Nzygquk\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February, 2025 &#8211; Digi24 From family to institution. State abuse under the guise of protection in the case of the children from Mures: separated from their parents due to the &#8220;absence of services in the community&#8221;. 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