2018 has been a busy year for the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims “Memoria”.
While awaiting the release of the Activity Report, here is a retrospective of some of RCTV Memoria’s activities through the team members’ appearances in the media.
The “Last Address” Project
The “Last Address” project is an initiative from the Russian Federation that was reproduced in various countries and implemented in Moldova in 2018, by the National Agency for the Inspection and Restoration of monuments with the involvement of RCTV Memoria. The role of RCTV Memoria was to identify victims and gather information about them. Later on, commemorative plaques were inaugurated on the facades of the houses where victims of the Stalinist repression lived, but never returned to, because they were killed or they died in Gulag camps.
For more information, please see the following links:
The “Stolpersteine” Project
The project “Stolpersteine”, or the “stumbling blocks” project, is an initiative from the German artist Gunter Demnig, to remember the victims of National Socialism by installing commemorative brass plaques in the pavement in front of their last address.
As for the “Last Address” project, RCTV Memoria was in charge of identifying victims and gathering information about them.
Implemented in several countries, such as Germany, Hungary, Norway and the Czech Republic, the first plaque in Chișinău was installed by Gunter Demnig himself on the 24th of July 2018.
For more information, please see the following links:
Participation in public events to raise awareness on the situation of torture in Moldova
In addition to providing rehabilitation services to victims of torture, RCTV Memoria’s priority is also to raise awareness on the major importance of identifying and preventing cases of torture and other forms of violence.
On the 2nd of March 2018, RCTV Memoria participated in the Talk Show “Impact”, hosted by the television channel Canal3, to discuss the issue of domestic violence, which is recognized as a form of torture by the Istanbul Protocol. Please find the broadcast “Viață curmată de bătaie” (“A lifetime of beatings”) here.
On the 26th of June 2018, which is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, RCTV Memoria participated in the Press Club “Răspunsul statului la cazurile de tortură, tratament inuman și degradant” (“State Response to Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment”) organized by civil society organizations (Promo-LEX, CRJM, Amnesty International Moldova, etc.).
Please find the video recording of the event here.
On the 26th of September 2018 a conference organized by the United Nations Office on Human Rights (OHCHR) was held in partnership with the National Mechanism for Torture Prevention, the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims “Memoria” and “Promo-LEX”. This conference “Application of UN Standards against Torture and Ill-treatment in the Republic of Moldova” was an opportunity for RCTV Memoria to report their findings on the matter. Please find the video recording of the event here.
On the 18th of October 2018, following the illegal extradition of 7 Turkish nationals on 6 September 2018 and the official visit of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, RCTV Memoria participated in a Press Conference organized by civil society organizations, under the powerful motto “Human lives are not objects of negotiation”. Please find a press article about the event here, as well as the video recording of the press conference here.
RCTV Memoria’s interviews
In April 2018, Ludmila Popovici, executive director of RCTV Memoria, was interviewed for the Interview of the Month of the National Coalition “Life without Violence”. RCTV Memoria has been a member of the coalition since 17 June 2015. If you want to know more about the meaning of torture in our current society, RCTV Memoria’s history and its missions, you can find the interview here.
Another interview with Ludmila Popovici in April 2018 was done by the Centrul de Investigații Jurnalistice (Center for Investigative Journalism) for their article “Abused women, facing the aggressors and the justice system alone”. In this interview, L. Popovici emphasized the need for proper documentation of the consequences of domestic violence, especially the invisible ones, such as internal organ damage or psychological traumas, so victims can benefit from adapted rehabilitation services and obtain legal recognition of their status as victims. You can find the entire article here.
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