Press releases

Anunț scoatere la concurs a postului de director executiv al asociaţiei

APADOR-CH anunţă scoaterea la concurs a postului de director executiv al asociaţiei

Propunerile APADOR-CH de modificare a Constituţiei, adresate Forumului Constituţional

Prin Hotărârea Parlamentului nr. 17/2013 a fost constituită Comisia comună a Camerei Deputaţilor şi Senatului pentru elaborarea propunerii legislative de revizuire a Constituţiei României.

Open letter

We are writing to you in order to reiterate our readiness to co-operate for the improvement of the Romanian Constitution and, at the same time, to express our concern with the flaws of the public consultation process regarding a piece of legislation that is of vital importance for the future of the country.

Letter to the Romanian Parliament – The Chamber of Deputies

The signatory organizations ask for Article II of the Legislative proposal to modify Government Ordinance no. 26/2000 on associations and foundations to be eliminated from the document, as voted by the Senate on February 12, 2013. Maintaining Article II is in violation of the general principle of irretroactivity of the law (provided by Article 15, paragraph 2 of the Constitution), the principle of separation of powers (Article 1, paragraph 4 of the Constitution) and of the authority of res judicata of final and irrevocable court decisions , as well as of the right to freedom of association (guaranteed by Article 40, paragraph 1 of the Constitution).

MARIN STOICA v. Romania Application no.32431/08

Request for referral to the Grand Chamber pursuant to article 43 of the Convention and rule 73 of the rules of Court

Apel către Parlament

Opriți finanţarea de către Stat a cultelor religioase şi redirecţionati aceste fonduri către Educaţie, Cercetare şi Sănătate!

Press release on the CVM Report: Freedom of speech doesn’t need new laws, but protection

The signatory organizations express their bewilderment and concern regarding the findings and recommendations referring to mass-media included in the CVM.

Scrisoare adresată dlui Victor Ponta, Prim-Ministru

Solicităm publicarea proiectului de buget pentru anul 2013 in format deschis, la momentul trimiterii in Parlament pentru dezbatere

ECHR decided against Romania for violation of its obligation to cooperate with the European Court and for breech of Articles 6, 8, 10 and 13 in the Bucur and Toma case.

On January 8, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (henceforward the Court) issued a judgment in the case Bucur and Toma v. Romania , retaining that the Romanian state was in breech of Article 38 (obligation to cooperate with the Court), of Article 6 (the right to a fair trial), of Article 10 (the right to freedom of expression), of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and of A rticle 13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights. APADOR-CH supported the court actions, through its solicitors.

APADOR-CH SENT QUESTIONNAIRES TO THE CANDIDATES FOR THE 2012 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE KEY INFORMATION TO VOTERS

APADOR-CH sent every candidate in the December 9 elections for the Romanian Parliament a set of 30 questions on relevant issues of public interest and asked them to answer them in reasonable time, similar to the 10 day term provided by Law no. 544/2001 on free access to public information.

Proiectul de buget pe 2013 trebuie să respecte Legea transparenței și să fie supus dezbaterii publice

Organizațiile semnatare reamintesc premierului Victor Ponta că Ministerul Finanțelor Publice are obligația de a supune dezbaterii publice proiectul legii bugetului pe anul 2013 , potrivit Legii nr.52/2003 privind transparența decizională în administrația publică.

Transparența alocării banilor publici – afectată grav de modificarile OUG 34/2006 cerute de ANRMAP

Organizaţiile semnatare au luat act cu îngrijorare de propunerea de amendare a OUG 34/2006 privind atribuirea contractelor de achiziţie publică, a contractelor de concesiune de lucrări publice şi a contractelor de concesiune de servicii iniţiată de ANRMAP şi postată pe site-ul acestei instituţii în data de 22 noiembrie 2012.

APADOR-CH A TRIMIS CANDIDAŢILOR LA PARLAMENTARELE DIN 2012 UN CHESTIONAR PENTRU INFORMAREA ALEGĂTORILOR

APADOR-CH a adresat candidaţilor la alegerile parlamentare din 9 decembrie 2012 un chestionar cu 30 de întrebări privind chestiuni relevante de interes public şi solicită acestora să trimită răspunsurile la chestionar într-un termen rezonabil, similar termenului de 10 zile prevăzut în Legea nr. 544/2001 privind liberul acces la informaţiile de interes public.

Press release: APADOR-CH on the judgment of the European court of Human Rights in the case Viorel Cucu v. Romania

On November 13, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued its judgment in the case Cucu v. Romania (22362/06), sanctioning the Romanian state for the violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights – prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, and of Article 3 of Protocol no. 1 of the Convention – right to free elections. The applicant's action was supported by APADOR-CH.

Alaturati-va Scrisorii de sustinere a reprezentantului societatii civile in Consiliul Superior al Magistraturii!

Mai multe organizatii neguvernamentale active in domeniul drepturilor omului, a bunei guvernari si, in orice caz, preocupate de reforma justitiei, au participat in perioada 15 septembrie – 5 noiembrie 2012 la un proces de consultare pentru a identifica si desemna un candidat din partea societatii civile pentru pozitia de membru in cadrul Consiliului Superior al Magistraturii (CSM).

Press release

The signatory organizations have sent the Minister of Education, Mrs. Ecaterian Andronescu, an open letter (see text below the press release) expressing their concern regarding the contents of religion textbooks used in schools and asking the Ministry (MECTS) to place this subject under public debate.

Press Release Regarding the ECHR judgment in the cause of the Alba Iulia Roman Catholic Archdiocese, sanctioning Romania for failing to return the property of the Roman Catholic Church

On September 25, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the cause Alba Iulia Roman Catholic Archdiocese v. Romania (application no. 3303/03) and sanctioned the Romanian state for the violation of Article 1, Additional Protocol 1 to the Convention (the right to property). The plaintiff was supported before the European Court by APADOR-CH, through collaborating councilors.

Letter to Sorin Oprescu, General Mayor of Bucharest Municipality

During the first meeting of the General Council of Bucharest in the 2012-2016 incumbency, we noted that these meetings were no longer open to the public. The signatories of the present letter consider that preparing a special room destined to watching Council meetings is not in the spirit of the law and principles of participative democracy, quite the contrary. Moreover, separating citizens from local elected representatives will have a major impact on direct communication between the two categories, the council meeting being one of the main occasions when citizens are able to take part in decision making regarding the city management.

Protest

The signatories of this protest – private persons and civil society organizations – took note with utter consternation that PSD senator Dan Şova was appointed as a delegate minister in charge of the relation with the Parliament.

Organizations of the civil society ask the Romanian Government to create a committee to monitor the election list updating process

We wish to reiterate here our opinion that a revision of the election lists, by any procedure, may only be done for the future, and cannot be taken into consideration for the recent July 29 referendum, which must be validated or invalidated according to rules in place at the time of the ballot, as underlined by the decision of the Constitutional Court.