The number of children in the digital world are on the rise. While information and communication technologies bring many benefits to children, they also put children at risk, including very young children. The age of users and potential victims of abuse continues to lower, with very young children being more exposed to harm.

In this regard, the Council of Europe project „Preventing and protecting children from violence including in the digital environment in the Republic of Moldova”, organised an event on 30th January 2023 to present „Analysis of Online child exploitation and abuse and the challenges of combating this phenomenon, including  the social responsibility of the IT sector.

The staff of the Equality Council had the occasion to analyse their monitoring activity and learn new skills related to the monitoring mechanism during a workshop.

Participants of the workshop discussed the goal and scope of the monitoring strategy, the lessons that have been learned so far based on the implementation process as well as elements that support and impede the activity based on the mentioned strategy.

A two-day seminar focusing on the way hate speech is addressed by the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence brought together 22 prosecutors and judges from the Republic of Moldova. The participants discussed best legal practices in hate speech case handling and exchanged experience and ideas to improve the legal redress responses to discrimination and hatred by the country.

11 trainers of the National Institute of Justice attended a 2-day session training on adult training methodology. The training of trainers’ sessions tackled theoretical and practical aspects of andragogy. The participants learned and practised the ways of planning a training session for adults, special training techniques, and tips on how to use non-verbal communication.

180 enforcement agents and 25 judges participated in 5 online training sessions about the “Methodological Guidelines on improving the enforcement of judgements concerning the determination of the residence and access to the applicants’ children”.  They were trained to increase the quality of judgements for this category of cases and enforce them, in line with the best interests of the child and international good practices.