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Report Data - Moldova - 2015

13 April 2016

Official Data

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced About these data
2019 Not available Not available Not available
2018 10 5 41
2017 17 5 10
2016 5 5 5
2015 0 0 1
NGO reports 
Organization Report 

The Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova and the OSCE Mission to Moldova reported an incident of vandalism, in which a swastika and other insulting inscriptions were drawn on the wall of a Jewish school.

Organization Name 
Jewish Community in Moldova [1]
Bias Motivation 
Anti-Semitism [2]
Description Type 
Reports
Organization Report 

The Information Center "GenderDoc-M" and the OSCE Mission to Moldova reported a physical assault carried out by a group targeting a transgender woman and her husband, and a physical assault that involved a robbery. "GenderDoc-M" also reported an additional five physical assaults, including one carried out by a group and one that caused serious injury; two attempted assaults; two incidents in which rainbow flags were stolen from an LGBT-rights organization; one incident of vandalism; and four threats.

Organization Name 
Information Centre “GenderDoc-M” [3]
Bias Motivation 
Bias against other groups - Sexual orientation or gender identity [4]
IGO Reports 
Organization Name 
OSCE Mission to Moldova [5]
Organization Report 

The OSCE Mission to Moldova participated in the work of an inter-institutional working group established by the Ministry of Justice to revise and improve the existing legal framework for combating hate crimes. The Mission also facilitated the Ministry of Justice's request to ODIHR to review the draft law prepared by this working group.

Bias Motivation 
Racism and xenophobia [6]
Description Type 
Developments
Organization Name 
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [7]
Organization Report 

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) supported a number of training initiatives related to refugees and hate crimes, organized in co-operation with the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), the Bureau for Migration and Asylum (BMA), judicial officials and civil society.

Bias Motivation 
Racism and xenophobia [6]
Description Type 
Developments
ODIHR Recommendations 

ODIHR observes – in the context of the disparity between reported official and IGO/NGO information – that reliable data can only be collected through mechanisms that capture all cases reported to law enforcement, and that the victims should be encouraged to report hate crimes.

National Developments 
Description Type 
Developments
Organization Report 

In 2015, the Ministry of Justice continued a consultation process, through an inter-institutional working group, to revise and improve Moldova's criminal code provisions addressing hate crimes.

Overview of incidents reported by civil society groups and organizations 
Mandated bias motivation 
Anti-Semitism [2]
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Mandated bias motivation 
Bias against other groups - Sexual orientation or gender identity [4]
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Source URL: https://hatecrime.osce.org/report-data/moldova/2015?destination=node/515

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[1] https://hatecrime.osce.org/ngo/jewish-community-moldova
[2] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/anti-semitism
[3] https://hatecrime.osce.org/ngo/information-centre-%E2%80%9Cgenderdoc-m%E2%80%9D
[4] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-other-groups-sexual-orientation-or-gender-identity
[5] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/osce-mission-moldova-1
[6] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/racism-and-xenophobia
[7] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/un-high-commissioner-refugees-unhcr