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One in eleven women trafficked returns home either pregnant or with a child born from one of her ‘clients’. The fate of these children is most often tragic: mothers are not able to offer them their love and sometimes they even detest them. Psychologists symbolically called this phenomenon the ‘dead mother syndrome’.  
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A vaccine turned her little girl into a disabled child. In struggling with life but also with the system, a teacher became housewife, nurse and NGO leader. She is Natalia Cechir who has been fighting for years to get a decent life for her child and for hundreds of other disabled.  
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In the Transnistrian region, tens of young people are arrested, kept in detention and convicted of…terrorism, treason and espionage. While in detention, they are tortured, their execution by shooting is set up, and they are left to get ill with tuberculosis or other serious diseases.  
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Seven children have been killed in beatings by their parents since the beginning of this year, while other eight got to hospital with serious body injuries; some of the latter remained disabled for the rest of their lives. In 2008, 15 children were killed in domestic violence, while other dozens were crippled up in beating.  
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The Ministry of Information Technologies (MIT) has recently provided information on the registered transport units of the Moldovan officials to the Investigative Journalism Center, after the court had obliged it to make such information public. The list of transport units registered in the Registry of Transports at MIT allowed us to check on how sincere the elected representatives of the people are, whether or not they indicated all transport means owned in their 2009 declarations of income or in their declarations filed with the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) before the parliamentary elections.  
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* At least 60 children aged between 13 and 18 were maltreated by the “people of the law” after the April 2009 events, according to our investigations.
* Although more than a year has passed, none of the policemen has been held accountable and only one case of a juvenile–victim of the policemen has been filed with the court.  
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In peace time, in those 18 years from the Nistru River War, over 3,500 veterans have passed away, which is ten times more than the number of those who died during the military conflict in 1992. Most of the times, the reasons for their deaths are their weakened health, aggravated by the war wounds and mental affections generated by the post-war syndrome that were not treated and became more acute as time passed by, as well as the sorrows of life and social isolation. The forgotten heroes pass away in loneliness or beside the closest to them people.  
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They killed their husbands after having been beaten and humiliated years in a row. Convicted to many years of imprisonment they are now serving their terms behind the bars. This is the sad story of several women who, from victims of domestic violence, became their abusers’ murderers. They found no other solution but to murder them in order to get rid of violence. Experts say that if the Anti-Violence Law functioned properly such cases could have been avoided.  
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In nearly one year from the tragic April events, none of the over 300 individuals tortured and abusively detained has been rehabilitated. None of the police officers who maltreated the young people who had come to protest in the Great National Assembly Square has been convicted. The Prosecutor’s Office that took action very late does not have completed investigations and none of the prosecutors who administered the cases of the young people, who were barely standing during trials, and did not take a stand, has been held accountable or at least suspended from office.  
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Engineer Anatol Oprea from Edineţ has been monitored by a psychiatric clinic for nearly 24 years. For as long he has been trying to prove that he is a victim repressive psychiatry. “I have never been mentally ill. Insane was the system that put me in a mental house only because I didn’t fit in their standards of ‘homo sovieticus,’ A. Oprea said.  
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