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Capital and 18 county residences each received a fine of 10.000 lei for failing to make public transport accessible to persons with disabilities.

• • NCCD fined the Ministry of Labour and National Agency for Payments and Social

Inspection, each with 30.000 lei for not taking any measures to remedy the problems related to public transportation for persons with disabilities. This was the third year when NCCD self-mandated concerning the accessibility in large municipalities and issued sanctions.

• • The Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children in Cluj-Napoca was fined by 2.000 lei

by NCCD in the case of the teenager in Covasna who, admitted to the medical unit, would have been humiliated by a doctor for not speaking Romanian language, with the respective doctor fined 1.000 lei himself. According to NCCD, the violation of the right of the minor patient and her next-of-kin to be informed about the health status and medical situation, in a respectful language and in the mother tongue or a known language, constitutes an offence of discrimination.

According to a national survey conducted following the request of N.C.C.D in 2015, the per- sons with HIV/AIDS were among the groups most exposed to discrimination in the country. According to that survey, most respondents indicated that they would not like to be in direct contact with people living with HIV/AIDS. Only 10% of respondents would accept a person with HIV/AIDS as a relative, 16% as a friend and 14% as a colleague. Approximately 15% of respondents would accept the idea of people with HIV/AIDS to live on the same street, 13% in the same community and 15% in the country.

The report notes that, although there is a legislation that prohibits discrimination related to employment, the government has not implemented these laws in an effective way, but only reacted to discrimination complaints, without being properly involved in programs dedicated to prevention of discrimination. While NCCD and the Labour Inspectorate investigated the cases of discrimination reported, the penalties were insufficient to deter the violation of the legislation in force.

Within the first six months of the year, NCCD recorded 187 cases of discrimination with respect to employment, of which 18 resulted in various penalties, mostly fines..

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