Romania
Non-discrimination law | Romanița Elena Iordache | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Gender equality law | lustina Ionescu | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Legal developments
Balancing freedom of speech with prohibition to discriminate and the right to dignity
Social housing criteria deemed as discriminatory following ex officio NCCD investigation
Multiple discrimination against Romani women in public discourse.
Ban on covering the face in educational institutions without providing for a religious exemption
Ex officio investigation started following testing recording becomes viral
New provisions on employment of persons with disabilities generate major limitations to existing private protected units
Activity report and statistical data
Attempt to abrogate Romanian Anti-discrimination Law
Attempt to abrogate Romanian Anti-discrimination Law
Provisions of the Criminal Code on official misconduct with discriminatory connotations diluted
Prohibition of desegregation in primary and secondary education on grounds of ethnic origin, mother tongue, disability and / or special educational needs, socio-economic status of the families, residence environment or educational achievement of the beneficiaries
Establishing level of jurisdiction/court competence for discrimination cases filed with the courts
NCCD sanctions for direct discrimination local public administration suggesting that relocation of Roma in rural areas is the solution for lack of water
National Strategy for 2016-2020 and Operational Plan on disability finally adopted
Social housing criteria deemed as discriminatory following ex officio NCCD investigation
Use of Romanian language only in public services
Discriminatory statements regarding the prohibition to recruit homosexual players in football club made by the person know publicly as owner, discrimination in employment, warning as effective remedy
Proposed amendments defining the following concepts: human dignity, tolerance, social group, social defamation, incitement to hatred, and social discrimination. Proposed measures to promote tolerance and combat discrimination in education, continuing professional development of teachers, of civil servants, and awareness raising through media. Proposed new institutional mechanisms for promoting human dignity and tolerance
Duty of taxi companies to ensure means of transportation for persons using wheel chairs which cannot be packed
Annual survey released by the national equality body shows trends in attitudes and perceptions regarding discrimination
Are determining occupational requirements for military professions legitimate and proportional justifications forsex-segregated recruitment, and for the significantly lower number of places for women than for men in the higher military education?
The dismissal of women returning from parental leave is forbidden by Romanian law, but what evidence is needed. to establish prima faciae discrimination on the ground of sex and maternity status in these cases?