CCTV cameras installed without the consent of the residents of an apartment building violate the residents’ right to privacy, according to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Lithuania in late December 2017. The dispute arose when a resident of the house, claiming to protect his property and that of the other residents, installed CCTV …
Lithuanian authorities refuse to disclose the name of the company that exported goods worth €1.14 million to North Korea this year. According to the news portal 15min.lt, this year a secretive Lithuanian company exported textiles to North Korea worth €1.14 million. Both Statistics Lithuania and the Customs Department refused to disclose who was trading with …
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Human Rights Monitoring Institute is launching new online learning course “New European legal standards on criminal procedure”. The course is aimed at criminal defence lawyers and associates, prosecutors, police officers and other professionals working in the field of criminal law. Experienced lecturers The European Union laws and the most recent case law of the European …
One municipality in Lithuania accidentally leaked residents’ personal codes to the public, violating their right to privacy and exposing them to fraud. Kėdainiai District Municipality sent out bills for waste disposal in envelopes displaying residents’ personal codes right next to their names. These codes are unique to each citizen and may be used to determine someone’s gender …
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A few months ago, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that Lithuania violated Article 3 (“no one shall be subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The group of prisoners who won the case are pleased with the results – now, Lithuania will have …
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Today, the National LGBT* Rights Organization LGL and the Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI) informed the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe about the process of executing the judgement in the case L. v. Lithuania. The civil society organizations’ have commended the Government’s efforts in introducing comprehensive procedures for legal gender recognition and …
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Human Rights Monitoring Institute joined over 50 civil society organizations from across the world in an appeal to the President of Poland Andrzej Duda to veto three acts regarding the functioning of the justice system in Poland. In its open letter the NGOs stress out that the Acts concerning the National Council of the Judiciary …
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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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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On October 19-26 the public opinion poll on the prevailing attitudes in society towards the human rights situation in Lithuania was carried out by “Spinter tyrimai”, a market research company. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, is primarily aimed at determining the general public’s knowledge level about human rights and ways to defend them, …
