Protecting victims of crime

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The project aims to strengthen the rule of law by ensuring an efficient, accessible and qualitative criminal justice system for children as victims of crime and for victims of hate crime, with a special focus on Roma population.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">To achieve this, it foresees the implementation of certain activities aimed at improving the response to hate crime and the protection and assistance mechanisms for victims of hate crime and for children as victims of crime, such as:&nbsp; perform thematic analyses of the existing situation with recommendations for improvement, having in view the challenges victims of Roma ethnicity face; draft guidelines for professionals; elaborate training packages, training of trainers and training of prosecutors and other professionals; renovate and refurbish 35 rooms for hearing children victims of crime.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The activities of the project target the prosecutors and other relevant professionals within Romanian public bodies involved in protecting the victims of crimes. The project will benefit the children victims of crime, the victims of hate crime, with a special focus on the Roma population. The project will also contribute to increasing the trust of citizens in the judicial system as a whole, with a focus on victims’ protection and support.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Each partner has its specific role, while the promoter (the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice) coordinates the overall implementation. Thus, the European Union </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif">Agency for Fundamental Rights will perform data collection, research and analysis and provide independent evidence-based advice to policy makers, cooperating and networking with stakeholders, the Ministry of Justice will provide advice with a focus on practical ways for incorporating the results of the project in new policies and outline bottlenecks, and the <span style="color: #000000">General Directorates of Social Assistance and Child Protection District will facilitate the setting up of the hearing rooms for children within their headquarters.</span></span></span></p>

Project partners

• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Donor project partner· Austria
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Project partner· Austria
• Ministry of Justice Project partner· Romania
• General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection District 2, Bucharest Project partner· Romania
• General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection District 3, Bucharest Project partner· Romania
• General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection District 4, Bucharest Project partner· Romania
• General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection District 5, Bucharest Project partner· Romania