News and updates on human rights developments in Lithuania and Europe
The Human Rights Monitoring Institute has submitted a position to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the ancient Baltic religious community “Romuva”. The position is set out in the context of the most recent action …
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 …
ECHR complaint on conditions in Lithuanian Foreigners’ Registration Centre Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lithuania drops to 36th position in the ILGA Rainbow Index Read More »
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 …
UN: Lithuania still needs to work on the rights of persons with disabilities Read More »
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 …
Pushbacks legalisation is incompatible with the principles of a democratic society Read More »
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 …
The high number of physical attacks, unjustified and humiliating lawsuits against journalists and laws that restrict freedom of expression or free access to information, are still a major and in some EU countries growing problem, according to Liberties’ Freedom of the Press Report 2023. In this report Liberties’ (watchdog CSO that safeguards the human rights …
