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Romania and Congo; NCCD retained that, by their statements, the two hosts “created a hostile, degrading and humiliating atmosphere for the African people”.

  ■■       Fines for the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour.
           The Steering board of the National Council for Combating Discrimination decided
           to fine the Ministry of Health by 2.000 lei and the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social
           Protection and the Elderly by 2,000 lei, for breaching the law on children’s rights,
           namely the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.

  ■■       NCCD fined the city hall of Sibiu.
           The National Council for Combating Discrimination fined the Sibiu City Hall by 500
           lei for having refused to promote “infrastructure investments (water supply, sewerage,
           roads etc.) benefiting the vulnerable group represented by the Roma community, in
           other words the suggestion that the mayor made about the Roma community needing
           to move to the rural outskirts of Sibiu County”.

  ■■       A newspaper that posted advertisements with wordings such as “looking for
           family to support me “no Gypsies and other ethnic groups”, fined 14,000 lei.
           The National Council for Combating Discrimination decided unanimously to issue a
           14,000 lei fine to a newspaper for publishing discriminatory advertisements for the
           Roma people. The advertisements published by the respective newspaper included:
           “looking for a family to support me ... no Gipsies or other ethnics”; “selling apartment,
           yard in common, no Gipsies”; selling apartment ... no Gipsies in the yard”.

  ■■       The Ministry of National Defence will not segregate men and women in
           schools, after being fined for discrimination.
           The schools of the Ministry of National Defence will not have separate places for wom-
           en and men in the school year 2017-2018, after the National Council for Combating
           Discrimination issued a warning to the army that such a practice was discriminatory;
           the ministry challenged the penalty but lost the trials.

  ■■       Two of the member organizations of the Coalition for Family fined for
           homophobic billsteering board advertising in Bucharest.
           Pro-Vita and the Alliance for Romanian Families, involved in the initiative for chang-
           ing the way that the family is defined by the Constitution, were fined by 1000 lei each
           by the National council for Combating Discrimination.

In 2013, these organizations used banners with messages like “Would you imagine your baby girl being a lesbian? Could you picture your boy a homosexual?” pointing at the George Coșbuc Bilingual High-School holding, at the time, an optional class about diversity making references, inter alia, to African-Americans and sexual minorities and planning a gay parade.

The final decision was issued by the Higher Court, after both organizations challenged the NCCD decision. .

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