Violation of the right to education for 170 children

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Catan and Others v Moldova and Russia (Appl. Nos. 43370/04, 8252/05 and 18454/06)

Documents from the November 2021 briefing:

  • Power point from Alexandru Postica and Ion Manole, Promo-LEX

  • Video about the impact of the non-implementation of the judgment, by Promo-LEX

Documents from the May 2021 briefing:

Documents from the February 2017 briefing:

  • Memo by Alexandru Postica, Human Rights Programme Director, PROMO-LEX, Moldova

  • Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights

The case concerns the violation of the right to education of 170 children or their parents from Latin-script schools located in the Transdniestrian region of the Republic of Moldova. Pursuant to the “Moldavian Republic of Transdniestria” “law” on languages, they had suffered from the forced closure of these schools between August 2002 and July 2004, as well as from measures of harassment, which the ECtHR found in violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 by the Russian Federation. 

More information on the execution process of the cases supervised by the CM can be found on the HUDOC-EXEC database of the Department for Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.