45 people, women and men representatives of local authorities and civil society from Balti, Telenesti, Sangerei and Drochia, met with the MPs of Moldova on Monday, June 27 in Balti, within the last Parliamentary Regional Forum "Dialogue with citizens".
Elections will become more inclusive in the Republic of Moldova starting with 2018, when remote Internet voting is planned to be piloted. On 28 June 2016 the results of the feasibility study “Introduction of Internet Voting in the Republic of Moldova” was presented by the Central Electoral Commission. The research was conducted with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), within the project “Improving the quality of democracy in Moldova through parliamentary and electoral support”, financed by the Governments of Sweden and Norway.
Government ministers and delegates from 16 countries meet in Chisinau to share National Adaptation Plans and to address regional climate change challenges
Based on current trends, 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030, the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals – unless the world focuses more on the plight of its most disadvantaged children, according to a UNICEF report released today.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, yesterday called on the Government of the Republic of Moldova to further promote linguistic rights of minorities and strengthen the unity between various population groups in the country.
The first convoys carrying 400 tonnes of obsolete pesticides from a site in Criuleni are leaving Moldova this week, headed for environmentally safe disposal in Poland. The Pașcani site in Criuleni is expected to be obsolete pesticide-free by the end of August.
The winners of the first hackathon to develop applications or web platforms to support fight against corruption were announced. The HACK.CORRUPTION event took place on 8-10 July 2016 in Chisinau and was organized with the financial support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), by CIVITTA and Garage48. The National Anticorupttion Centre and the Electronic Governnance Centre partenered for this hackathon.
On the occasion of the World Population Day, the Demographic Research Centre in partnership with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Moldova, launched the Demographic Barometer which analyses the impact of 1990-2014 economic crises on the population.
