Presentation given at the OECD Gender Budgeting Experts Meeting, Vienna, Austria. 18-19 June 2018 For more information see http://www.oecd.org/gov/budgeting/gender-budgeting-experts-meeting-2018.htm

1. Domestic violence
Romanian
key facts

2. National Agency for Equal Opportunities
between women and men - NAEO
public administration
authority;
subordinated to the Ministry of
Labour and Social Justice;
its role is to underlain,
elaborate and apply the
Government policies and
strategies and to monitor the
conformation of legal provisions
in both its interest fields.
Mission:
to promote the principle of
equal opportunities and
treatment between women
and men in all national
policies and programs;
to prevent and combat
domestic violence.
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3. Social services in the field of
preventing and combating domestic violence
In the 41 counties of Romania and 6 sectors in Bucharest there are:
• 61 centers providing accommodation, assistance and counseling
to the victims of domestic violence, of which 45 emergency
centers (37 public and 8 private) and 16 recovery centers (11
public and 5 private);
• 32 day-service services, of which 25 counselling centers (16
public and 9 private) and 7 centers for information and public
awareness services (public);
• 4 day centers offering services to family aggressors (2 public and
2 private).

4. Types of social services for victims (93)
Housing services
(residential regime)
61
• Emergency receiving
Centres (shelters) -
45;
• Recovery Centres for
the victims of
domestic violence –
16.
No housing services
(day centres)
32
• Counselling Centres
on preventing and
combating domestic
violence – 25;
• Information and
raising awareness
Centres – 7.
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5. The victim rights related to services
Free, immediately assistance for the victim and his/her family;
Protection against the aggressor, care, food, housing,
psychological and juridical counselling;
Up to maximum 180 days housing in the centre, if there is the
case (the address is not public);
The social worker elaborate an intervention plan, according to
each victim needs, former and current situation, level of
education, financial status, so one;
The plan is constantly revised according to the changes that
intervene.
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6. Total number of
domestic violence
cases (women,
men and
children),
beneficiaries at
request of social
services
2014
11.598
2015
12.273
2016
13.019
2017
13.102
2012
14.376
2013
15.358
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7. Victims of domestic violence in 2017
- data provided by the General Directorates for Social Assistance and Child Protection
(beneficiaries at request of social services)
male
male
female
female
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
4,000
4,500
1
2,515
2,942
3,442
4,203
The residence environment

8. 5718
5316
1927
141
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
girls boys women men
Victims of domestic violence
2017 – by sex, minor and adult
2,353
2,304
435
7,451
282 197
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
Number of cases by type of
violence
physics:18.07%
psychological: 17.69%
sexual: 3.34%
pby deprivation / neglect:
57.22%
economic: 2.17%
social: 1.51%

9. The Protection Order
The request for the
protection order:
• could be applied by
the victim / legal
representative /
prosecutor;
• is free of charge;
• is immediately judged
by the court.
The Protection Order must be:
issued in maximum 72 hours, for a period
no longer than 6 months;
several related measures imposed by the
court (inclusively the interdiction of the
aggressor to stay near the victim, until
the evacuation of the domicile, even if
he is the owner of the
house/apartment);
immediately communicated to the police
force where the house of the aggressor
and victim is allocated;
the police officers are in charge of
monitoring the situation.
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10. The comply to the Istanbul Convention
In the last 3 years, Romania assumed an ambitious and complex process to
reform its national legislation in the field of domestic violence.
We strongly cooperated with Norway and Spain, in order to better
improve our legislation (study visits, information exchange and know-how
expertise transfer).
By Law 30/2016, we ratified the Convention, one of our Government
priorities was to harmonize the legislation.
The Government recently approved the complex legislative package
necessary to harmonize the Convention and national legislation
framework, currently the package is discussed for approval in the
Romanian Parliament.
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11. • Law No. 217/2003 on preventing and combating domestic violence,
republished;
• Law No. 30/2016 on ratifying The Council of Europe Convention on
preventing and combating violence against women and domestic
violence;
• Law No. 272/2004 on protecting and promoting the rights of the
child;
• Law No. 286/2009 on Penal Code;
• Law No. 135.2010 on Penal Procedure Code;
• Law No. 211/2004 on measures in order to ensure the protection of
the victims of crime;
• Law No. 292/2011 on social assistance;
• Several Government Decisions and Minister Orders, on approving
strategies, labor methodologies, different attributions of all
institutional actors, standards, so one, in the field of domestic
violence.
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12. Beside the completion and modification of primary legislation,
we developed secondary and tertiary legislation, in order to
ensure working instruments/procedures/methodologies such as:
Future concrete measures focused on social services:
 Developing of 20 protected housing apartments for the
victims;
 Creating 8 crises centres for rape victims;
 Developing of an network of 8 assistance centres for
aggressors.
Creating specialized domestic violence intervention teams at local
level;
Elaborating norms regarding the issuing of emergency protection
orders;
Developing an integrated monitoring system for all protection orders
(electronic devices, mobile applications).
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13. Related measures carried out apart from
harmonizing the legislation
1.The Inter-ministerial
Committee
• In October 2016, the
Romanian Government
created the Inter-Ministerial
Committee on preventing and
combating domestic violence,
in order to better facilitate
the Istanbul Convention
provisions among all relevant
stake holders.
2.Training the professionals
• NAEO actively participate to the
continue training process of the
police officers, in partnership
with the Public Order Studies
Institute, for two learning
modules (one focused on gender
equality and discrimination and
another one regarding domestic
violence);
• Ministry of Justice carried on
several sessions for the training of
prosecutors and judges.
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14. 3. Free help-line for domestic violence victims
with a unique number 0800 500 333
The victims, potential witnesses or other persons who have
knowledge of such violence and who need support, information and
advice, can call for free, 24/7.
In case of urgent domestic violence situations, the call-centre
operators guide the victims to national emergency help-line 112.
For all the other reported situations, operators, with the victim
consent, register the data (identification, type of aggression,
offender, repetition) and provide to caller information's about
actions to be taken.
No. of calls : 2016 - 2.380, 1st Semester 2017 - 1335
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15. 4. Information and raising awareness campaigns
– carried out by NAEO
2015 - “START — A quality life in safety!”, financed by European Social
Found, had national coverage, provided support to 5,050 victims who
received complex services in terms of psychological, social, medical and
vocational assessment, or raising awareness seminars attended by 5,000
women;
2015-2016 - "National Campaign for Awareness and Public Information
on Family Violence", financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism,
designed to ensure broad coverage, focused on the existence and the
utility of the free telephone line dedicated to combating domestic
violence 0800.500.333, as a public information vector;
4th–11th May 2016 - The Equal Opportunities Week, for celebrating 8
May – National Day for Equal Opportunities between women and men.
Over 1200 students participated to debates in 11 Bucharest high schools,
on themes about domestic violence and human trafficking;
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16. 25 November 2016 – (during 16 Days of Activism against Gender-
Based Violence) had the campaign “Rugby says NO to violence
against women!” in collaboration with the Romanian Rugby
Federation and “No Words” NGO, during the rugby game between the
national teams of Romania and Uruguay, all the players revealed a
banner with the message and screen spots were broadcast during the
television of the game. (4.000 spectators, 250.000 TV spectators).
8th-11th May 2017 - The Equal Opportunities Week, 5 high school’s
meetings, attended by almost 300 pupils, debating about physical
violence, couple violence, teenagers relations, discrimination and
bullying;
Currently - in partnership with the National Authority for Disabled
Persons and Active Watch NGO, we implement the project “Justice
has no gender”, financed by EU Commission, raising awareness of
high school teachers and students about school violence cases caused
by discrimination (gender based violence), developing educational
activities, orientated both for teachers and pupils.
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17. Thank you for your attention!
Dan MOLDOVAN
Counsellor for European affairs
The National Agency for Equal Opportunities between women and men - NAEO
Address: Intr. Camil Petrescu nr. 5, sector 1, Cod Poștal 010541, București
Work phone: +4 021.313.00.59 Fax: +4 021.367.24.06
E-mail: dan.moldovan@anes.gov.ro
Site: www.anes.gov.ro
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