Rolul instituțiilor naționale și al societății civile în creșterea conștiinței publice a sistemului european de protecție a drepturilor omului
Role of national institutions and the civil society with increasing public awareness about the human rights protection system

Summary/Abstract: A field in which the role of the legislative, the executive and the tribunals is limited, par excellence, or even inexistent in the case of tribunals, is, for instance, better knowledge and awareness about human rights, including the European system for the protection thereof, by both public authorities and the public at large, subjects of law and beneficiaries of their protection. A key role lies with the national institutions, independent and equidistant, created under the law, with provisions to guarantee this independence and equidistance, with specific powers, irrespective of their name – institutes, centers, commissions, ombudsman, etc. In this respect, there are two national institutions in Romania – the Romanian Institute for Human Rights and the Advocate of the People, the constitutionally consecrated name for the ombudsman. These public institutions, established under the law, independent and enjoying guaranties as to their independence, fulfill complementary specific functions: research, training, informing, and consultancy in the case of the Romanian Institute for Human Rights, and mediation in the case of the Advocate of the People. At the same time, the civil society – made up of a wide and diverse range of non-governmental organizations, trade unions and the media – has an immense potential and makes a consistent contribution to information, training and education in the field of human rights. The non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights have the moral obligation, coming out from the very purpose of their existence, to inform the persons who are interested or those whose rights they defend in terms of the rights and the obligations provided for by the international instruments, universal and regional, by initiating programs, seminars, debates, etc., in partnership with the State's institutions.

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