Balti, Moldova – 2018
Balti, Moldova joined the 2018 Global Day Of Action
Organiser[s] Moldova Consortium, the League of PLHIV, Pulse Initiative Group, GenderDoc M, the Partnership for Equal Access, ECUO, UORN and TDV BALTI
We decided to organize an action on the day of the municipal council meeting in order to personally ask questions to municipal councilors in Balti, Moldova, at the initiative of the community of people who use drugs and other key populations and organizations of Moldova such as Moldova Consortium, the League of PLHIV, Pulse Initiative Group, GenderDoc M, the Partnership for Equal Access, ECUO, UORN and TDV BALTI.
The activists asked the staff of the city hall the following question: “In your opinion, do drug users deserve punishment or support? » We asked the citizens the same question in the Central square of Balti. Its purpose was to draw attention of the public and local authorities to the situation regarding drug users in Balti. All respondents said that drug users did not deserve any punishment. No one said that it should be used. Thus, these answers do not confirm the exaggerated opinion, that the Moldovan society is not ready for the liberalization of drug policy.
The community of PWUD in Moldova, together with other groups and organizations, is going to continue its work in developing and implementing a new humane model of drug policy, and so that oppression of people who use drugs could be finally stopped. We are going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights on all these issues
