In 2025, the Law Centre of Advocates (CDA), in partnership with UNHCR, supported the implementation of the grant programme within the Sergio Vieira de Mello Academic Chair (SVMAC) network, contributing to the development of a strong platform for collaboration between universities, experts, and communities.Implemented between 15 June and 30 November 2025, the programme generated significant … Read more
In 2025, the Law Center of Advocates (CDA) continued to turn rights into concrete solutions for thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and undocumented individuals in the Republic of Moldova.Throughout the year, 10,498 people received legal counseling through over 17,600 individual sessions. The CDA team intervened in 7,761 cases before authorities, courts, and police, … Read more
On January 28, 2026, the Government of the Republic of Moldova decided to extend temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine until March 1, 2027. To maintain this status, it is necessary to submit an application for extension, as the procedure is not carried out automatically. The application must be submitted electronically via the platform … Read more
A total of 409 undocumented persons were identified as a result of the mapping exercise carried out by the Law Center of Advocates (CDA), based on the analysis of data received from 582 mayoralties, representing 69% of all local public authorities across the country’s districts and the administrative-territorial units of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of … Read more
The Strategic Development Plan for the 2025-2027 period aims to strengthen CDA’s role as a defender of human rights, particularly for foreign citizens, refugees, stateless persons, and those at risk of becoming stateless. This is based on the principles of an effective, impartial, and fair justice system. Additionally, CDA is committed to continuing its support … Read more
Three brothers, aged 33, 29 and 27, lived until recently without papers and without citizenship. They have never been to school, have no stable job and two of them live in cohabitation because they could not formalize their marriage due to a lack of documents. Also for the same reason, one of the men is … Read more
2024 was a year of challenges, but also of successes that strengthened our position as a reliable and credible non-governmental organization, both for beneficiaries and partners. We continued to support refugees and displaced persons from Ukraine, providing legal assistance and helping them solve important problems related to their stay and integration in the Republic of … Read more
The Equality Council found direct discrimination in access to medical services based on asylum seeker status in the case of a beneficiary of the association. RF, a person who applied for asylum in the Republic of Moldova, received from the General Inspectorate for Migration a temporary identity document of the asylum seeker that allowed him … Read more
CDA was actively involved in the International Campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence”, 2024 edition, with the theme “Every 10 Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women”. We reaffirmed on this occasion our firm commitment to promote gender equality, the culture of respect for human dignity, to prevent … Read more
CDA team members joined the 2024 edition of the National Afforestation Campaign. On November 16, the day it was kicked off, employees of the association, together with relatives and friends, planted about 5000 acacia and willow saplings near the village of Logănești, Hâncești. By planting trees on a sloping ground with a risk of landslides, … Read more
