Author name: Deimantė Juščiūtė

Ruling of the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court: the Migration Department unlawfully and unjustifiably refused to examine an asylum application

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The Vilnius Regional Administrative Court in case No. el3-9170-1161/2023 stated that the provisions of the legislation regulating the time limits for examination of asylum applications are imperative, therefore, they do not give the right to the Migration Department to decide on the extension of the time limit for application. The applicant left his country of …

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ECHR complaint on conditions in Lithuanian Foreigners’ Registration Centre

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An Iraqi asylum seeker has lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the conditions of detention during the period spent in Kybartai Foreigners’ Registration Centre. The person was detained by Lithuanian border guards at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border in July 2021 and then transferred to multiple different Registration centres until in …

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Professionals’ attitudes towards gender equality improved after training with specialists

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As part of the Active Citizens Foundation project “Sustainable support for human rights through advocacy and education“, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, together with its partner association “Kaunas Women’s Line” lead 5 online training courses on “Domestic Violence: recognition, response and support” for professionals working with domestic violence: police officers, medical staff, child rights specialists …

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Proposals to improve protection of women with disabilities against domestic violence in Lithuania

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Lawyers at the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson of Lithuania, Audronė Daukšaitė-Timpė and Karolis Čepas, conducted a study on the protection of women with disabilities against domestic violence in Lithuania. According to the lawyers, there is still a lack of individualised needs assessment, but this is due to the fact that the debate on …

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Memo to the media: how to reduce hatred?

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In March and April, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute invited media representatives to trainings in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda on the topics of reducing hatred against the LGBTQ+ community and respectful communication. The training has resulted in a memo for media representatives, in which the team of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute provides some tips …

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Lithuania drops to 36th position in the ILGA Rainbow Index

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In the recently published ILGA 2023 Rainbow Index Lithuania has dropped from 35th to 36th position in Europe in terms of LGBTI rights. The situation is currently worse in non-democratic Belarus, Russia and non-EU countries such as Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The 2023 ILGA review of LGBTI rights in Europe and Central Asia highlighted the …

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UN: Lithuania still needs to work on the rights of persons with disabilities

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In the end of April, 2023, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) published the list of issues in relation to the combined second and third periodic reports of Lithuania. The attention was drawn to such problems as challenges and achievements in legislative processes to bring domestic legislation into …

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Pushbacks legalisation is incompatible with the principles of a democratic society

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This week Parliament passed and the President signed amendments of the Law on the State Border and its Protection, which legalise pushbacks on people who cross or attempt to cross the border. In principle, the practice established in August 3, 2021 of discouraging people from crossing the border when they attempt to cross the border …

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Human Rights Monitoring Institute intervenes in the case of the pushback and detention of Cuban citizens before the European Court of Human Rights

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HRMI files a third-party intervention in the case C.O.C.G. and Others v. Lithuania in which Cuban nationals complain to the European Court of Human Rights about their multiple pushbacks to Belarus, ill-treatment by border officials and unjustified detention. The purpose of third-party intervention is to provide the Court with objective and impartial information relevant to the …

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