Author name: Deimantė Juščiūtė

Lithuania May Soon Allow Individuals to Appeal to the Constitutional Court

The Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania is currently discussing amending the Constitution and the Law on the Constitutional Court to allow natural persons and legal entities to defend their constitutional rights before the Constitutional Court. Anyone could plead their case This is already possible in many democracies. It would open the way for people …

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Stop Violence Against Women: From Awareness-Raising to Zero Victim Blaming

This project aims to develop targeted information and implement practical empowerment actions, education activities and awareness-raising to increase understanding of different forms of violence against women by general public and specialists working on the field in order to combat victims blaming and ultimately, contribute to promoting zero tolerance to violence against women and strengthening gender …

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New standards to combat discrimination – changes in business, public sector and society

Project goal: To raise the level of general knowledge and awareness around the principles of equal opportunities and mitigation of discrimination in the workplace, under the Equal Opportunities legislation in the private and public sectors, as well as general civil society. Time period 2017 04 05 – 2020 04 05 Applicant (Coordinator) Office of the Equal …

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Expert task force searched for practical solutions to improve victims‘ rights protection

On 27-28 April, HRMI held expert task force meeting as part of the project „Improved response to victims of crime“. During the two-days long intensive meeting, experts from police, prosecution office and non-governmental organisations were developing the framework and contents for practical handbook and training programme for law enforcement officers, designed to enhance interaction with …

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Will We Overcome Apathy Towards Transgender Concerns in Lithuania?

Updated on 2 May 2017 Lithuania is dragging its heels when it comes to implementing legal protections for transgender people, an issue one politician in the country bluntly said was not a priority. A decade has passed since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment in the case of L v. Lithuania, …

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Another Attempt at Media Censorship in Lithuania Fails After Public Outcry

MPs belonging to the Farmers and Greens Union proposed legally obliging the Lithuanian media to publish “positive” and “negative” information in equal parts. Dovilė Šakalienė, Zenonas Streikus and Robert Šarknickas, members of the ruling coalition in Parliament, gave quite a fright to Lithuanian journalists with their proposal to put into law that at least 50 …

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Another Attempt to Ban Abortions in Lithuania

The party declaring to represent the Polish minority in Lithuania plans to submit a draft law that would make abortion illegal in the country. Rita Tamašunienė and Valdemaras Tomaševskis, representatives of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance political group, announced on February 20 that they plan to submit a proposal …

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Improved Response to Victims of Crime

On 10 February, Human Rights Monitoring Institute and Lithuanian Police School held the kick-off meeting of the project “Improved Response to Victims of Crime” (JUST/2015/JACC/AG/VICT/9269). The project funded by the Justice Programme of the European Union, aims to equip law enforcement officers with knowledge and tools necessary to effectively respond to victims of crime. The …

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