Deputies approved the report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the work for 2021

The Supreme Council approved the Ombudsman's report on the work for the past year. Vyacheslav Kosinsky spoke in the course of the plenary session, outlining to the deputies the situation in the field of human rights observance in our republic.

The Commissioner considered 586 appeals last year. The checks were carried out in terms of compliance with the law on all issues. Citizens were provided with various kinds of legal assistance.

More than a third of applications came from pensioners, as in the past year. A sufficient number of them were received from convicts, the unemployed and hired workers. Basically, the topics raised relate to the observance of civil, social, economic rights of citizens, as well as their rights to judicial protection and a fair trial.

The Commissioner conducted inspections in the field of protecting the rights of orphans and children left without parental care, children with physical developmental disabilities, in terms of observing the rights of persons serving sentences in institutions of the penitentiary system, pre-trial detention centers and temporary detention centers. Inspections were carried out in the healthcare system, social protection, education and others.

The Ombudsman in the course of the plenary session drew attention to the fact that the republic is in difficult economic conditions today, transport logistics for the import of food products into the republic are being reviewed, in connection with which prices for food and goods began to rise. This issue worries Pridnestrovians, emphasized Vyacheslav Kosinsky. He noted the need to take a set of measures aimed at supporting socially vulnerable categories of citizens. The Commissioner urged Pridnestrovians to remain calm, not to panic and not to believe unverified information from social networks.