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The project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Romanian authorities to implement/enforce the decisions of the ECHR in Strasbourg, as well as the country recommendations issued by the CoE in the field of abuse, domestic and gender violence. The activities aim at: development and promotion of mechanisms to protect the rights of vulnerable persons and measures to combat discrimination and/or to promote human rights; Carrying out a training program for 1,918 specialists regarding the implementation of international human rights documents ratified by Romania and the avoidance of procedural defects; Carrying out a national information and awareness campaign on gender-based violence (including a component for youth and Roma women) and non-discrimination; Creation of an online platform, as a resource for informing the public, including a segment dedicated to professionals in the field, a component dedicated to reporting abuses in the judiciary and a component for insurance advising/guiding vulnerable people on the protection of their rights and how to notify the competent authorities; Organization of the Virtual Legal Caravan in order to increase the capacity of the institutions to implement the recommendations resulting from ECHR judgments and other country-specific recommendations; Carrying out advocacy activities to enable the creation of effective communication mechanisms between different institutional actors with responsibilities in the process of implementing country decisions and recommendations on abuse, domestic violence and gender-based violence; Develop a nationally representative study on compliance with ECHR judgments and recommendations of the Council of Ministers of CoE on the rights of victims of gender-based violence.