Crime in Moldova

Crime in Moldova, as everywhere in the Post-Soviet states, has risen in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, although in recent years there has been an improvement.

[8] Moldova is a source and transit nation in the trafficking in human beings, in particular women and girls into forced prostitution.

The government demonstrated increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Moldova was upgraded to Tier 2.

Victims continued to suffer from intimidation from traffickers, and authorities provided uneven levels of protection during court proceedings."

[10] According to Amnesty International, the most common human rights abuses in Moldova are restrictions on freedom of association, unfair trials, torture and other ill-treatment in places of detention, and discrimination against LGBT and Roma minority.