Author name: Deimantė Juščiūtė

Sustainable support to human rights through advocacy and awareness raising

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The project aspires to enhance support to human rights on the levels of public policy, society, and regional communities. It is expected that after the implementation of the project, the observance of international human rights standards in Lithuania will be strengthened, the awareness of the needs of vulnerable communities will be raised among specialists and …

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Online seminar “Active European Citizens Against Hate Speech” took place on 5 October 2020

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The seminar gathered experts and other stakeholders from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia with the aim to discuss the current situation and challenges in regards to hate speech, outline best practices on how to tackle online and offline hate speech, how to empower young people and promote civic participation of migrants and minorities in …

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Dainius Pūras on addressing two global crises: the pandemic and global mental health crisis

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Today international conference “Mind the Gap: Emotional Wellbeing and Social Solidarity during Covid-19″ was taking place in Kaunas on COVID-19 and mental health. Dainius Pūras, Director of the HRMI was among keynote presenters and delivered a speech about “Covid-19 and the right to health”. All human rights are indivisible and interconnected. The right to physical and mental …

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NGOs in 9 EU Countries Request Information and Impact Analyses of Covid-19 Tracing Apps

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08 June 2020, Berlin – Human rights organizations in nine EU countries, members of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) network, are simultaneously filing freedom of information requests to their national authorities regarding the new contact-tracing, symptom-tracking and quarantine-enforcing applications introduced to control the spread of Covid-19.   The initiative, the first of its …

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Disability Hate Crime in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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Violence and crime experienced by persons with disabilities is widespread across the world. Yet, in the Baltic countries there is a significant latency and lack of data and statistics with regards to persons with disabilities as crime victims, including hate crimes. Similar trends are identified across all three Baltic countries, where states fail to recognise, …

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Between experience and social ‘norms’, identification and compliance: economic and sexual intimate partner violence against women in Lithuania

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This academic article discusses economic and sexual violence against women, which are the two forms of intimate partner violence the least recognised by both Lithuanian society and the survivors of such abuse themselves. The authors of this article from Human Rights Monitoring Institute and Centre for Equality Advancement analyse the roots of this lack of …

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Training curriculum for Training of Trainers on the topic of hate crime and how to tackle it

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This Training Curriculum  for Training of Trainers in the Baltic region on the topic of hate crime and how to tackle it from the civil society perspective “Capacity and Network Building Through Knowledge Sharing to Address Racism, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance” and the accompanying guidelines on how to prepare and run the aforementioned training was …

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