Ensuring the training of employers, economic agents regarding children's rights and the
facilities they have, as subjects of labour;
Carrying out campaigns on protection against child labour;
Developing the legal framework on the provision of facilities for economic agents that
provide jobs for children and comply with labour legislation regarding minor employees.
OBSERVANCE OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
IN THE TRANSNISTRIAN REGION
The observance of children's rights in the region not controlled by the Moldovan authorities
is a dilemma for national public authorities, including the National Human Rights Institution. Thus,
as a National Human/Child Rights Institution, the People's Advocate for Children's Rights has
constantly monitored, since the beginning of her term of office (year 2016) the observance of
children's rights on the left bank of the Dniester.
The Children's Ombudsman notes that the constitutional authorities continue to fail to
provide effective protection to children in the Transnistrian region. Thus, at present there is no
truthful systematized information on the observance of children's rights in that region.
The Children's Ombudsman recommends that central and local public authorities strengthen
the measures taken to ensure that the rights of the child are respected in the territory concerned. The
Children's Ombudsman argues that the neglect of this category of citizens leads to a destabilization
of the overall situation in the field of human rights protection. The State must also be ready to
answer for the consequences of continuing to neglect the issue of respect for the rights of children
on the left bank of the Dniester.
In this chapter, the People's Advocate for Children's Rights will submit only a part of the
rights that she considers most affected and on which she recommends the urgent recovery of the
situation.
The protection of children left without parental care and children placed in residential
institutions is an issue that needs to be urgently included on the agenda of politicians and the
negotiating group on the Transnistrian segment. According to the information received from the
authorities in the region, the number of children left without parental care and children placed in
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