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abled persons, ratified by Romania in 2011, it is retained that, at the end of the year 2016, this was not operational.

The report also notes some aspects related to the sexual minorities’ rights, lesbians and gays, especially after the campaign concerning the organization of a referendum on the restrictive definition given by the Constitution to the notion of family. Mention is also made regarding that, in accordance with the Civil code, marriages between persons of the same sex and civil partnerships that were banned and those contracted abroad, are not recognized.

U.S. State Department of Human rights The report shows that most of the problems related to respect for human rights include abuse and harassment committed by gendarmes and policemen over the detainees and Roma ethnics. Systematic social discrimination of Roma has affected their access to adequate education, housing, medical services and employment.

There were also reports in respect of discrimination and violence against women.

Another problem signalized in the annual report of the State Department is that government agencies have not provided adequate assistance to persons with disabilities and did not meet the standards of care of such persons from institutions, exposing them to abuse.

The observers have noted that the authorities failed in general to protect children with HIV/ AIDS from discrimination and abuse. More infected people dropped out of school because of stigmatization or discrimination.

Social discrimination against gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons, especially against minor children, is still present at a very high level.

The report indicates that NCCD is the Government institution under parliamentary control responsible for the enforcement of domestic and EU laws on fighting discrimination. .

NCCD is, according to observers, as effective, although some of them have criticized the lack of efficiency and political independence.

A series of Council resolutions ascertaining discrimination acts are mentioned, including the following:

• • In December 2015, NCCD fined with 2.000 lei the self-proclaimed leader of the le-

gionary movement, for publishing on his Facebook page of a discriminatory caricature addressed to the president of the National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Ro- mania, Elie Wiesel. The caricature was portraying the director as the personification of „Jewish Nazism”, being depicted with a briefcase on which were written the words “anti-Romania laws”.

• • It is retained that discrimination against persons with disabilities remained a problem,

the Government non-applying the law entirely. In many cases, persons with disabilities face institutional and social discrimination. According to the NCCD’s decision, the

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