Legal Resource Center, Moldova

I also interviewed an attorney specializing in litigation before the European Court of Human Rights for more than 10 years who is Executive Director of the NGO Legal Resources Center of Moldova.  He has been working on a major report about the impact of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on legal reform in Moldova that will be published this October.

For more about the Legal Resources Center, see their website:
http://crjm.org/

Legal Resources Centre from Moldova (LRCM) is a Chisinau based NGO created in November 2010 by a group of lawyers activists. All its members have extensive expertise in litigation before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), translation into Romanian of the ECtHR jurisprudence, reporting on human rights, eradication of torture, promotion of freedom of expression and access to justice, including judiciary and legal aid reforms.

The LRCM current main activities are focused on the implementation in Moldova of human rights treaties, monitoring the transparency and efficiency of the activity of the Supreme Council of Magistracy and reforms in the Moldovan justice sector. It is to become the first Moldovan think-tank focused on justice and human rights.

LRCM seeks to contribute to:

• building an efficient, transparent, fair and credible judiciary; 
• raising the awareness of the authorities about and and identifying long-lasting solutions to human rights problems; 
• creating a culture of respect for human rights; 
• developing human rights friendly public policies. 

We act to achieve our goals via:

• advocacy of best practices in the field of justice and human rights;
• research on public policy issues;
• monitoring and reporting on judiciary and human rights;
• training on human rights issues;
• strategic litigation.

LRCM employs various working methods such as:

• assisting the Ministry of Justice from Moldova in the process of elaboration of the justice reform documents;
• evaluating the manner how the ECtHR judgments have been executed by Moldovan Government;
• monitoring and reporting the activity of the Supreme Council of Magistracy;
• scrutinising draft legislation before it passes through Parliament;
• educating lawyers, journalists and law students in the field of human rights and justice.