09.07.2007

Dina Mocan, ABA ROLI’s Moldova Legal Assistant, earned a certificate in Women’s Human Rights from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden.  The Institute awarded the certificate to Ms. Mocan after she passed an examination on a range of human rights issues and completed all the requirements of the second phase of her participation in the February 2007 regional program on women’s rights at the Institute.  Ms. Mocan was one of 25 participants from Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia selected in a competitive process and funded entirely by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.  For the second phase of the program, Ms. Mocan organized two gender rights trainings that the Rule of Law Initiative conducted in cooperation with Winrock International for young students in rural northern Moldova. She also wrote a gender equality “Know Your Rights” brochure that the office has widely distributed.   Ms. Mocan joined the Moldova office in 2005 as a law student intern after winning an ABA ROLI writing competition on women’s rights and since then has completed her law degree and been promoted twice.