Practical guides and materials published by the Human Rights Monitoring Institute
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 …
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, …
Disability Hate Crime in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Read More »
This guide was developed within the framework of the project “Prevention of Torture: Practices, Standards and Regulations in Russia, Nordic and Baltic Countries” funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The project was implemented by four partner NGOs: Citizens’ Watch (St. Petersburg, Russia), Human Rights Monitoring Institute (Vilnius, Lithuania), Civil Rights Defenders (Stockholm, Sweden) and …
Monitoring Places of Detention: A Practical Guide Read More »
Each year plenty of people become victims of crimes. A crime violates the victim’s physical and (or) psychological integrity and may damage the person’s self-esteem and trust in other people. Therefore, professional communicating by pre-trial investigation officers is a crucial precondition for avoiding further negative and harmful consequences related to the experienced crime. The Human …
HANDBOOK FOR OFFICERS: COMMUNICATING WITH VICTIMS OF CRIME Read More »
In November 2013, HRMI released English version of the informational guide “Hate Speech in Lithuania: Frequently Asked Questions”. In recent years, public discussion about the hate speech has intensified. Successful legislative initiatives to ban public denial of genocide and the Soviet aggression perpetrated against Lithuania and the first lawsuits have caused ambiguous response. Each month, …
Human Rights Monitoring Institute has recently released an information guide “KNOW Your Human Rights and Their Protection”, dedicated to citizens of countries outside the EU. This methodological material is destined to introduce foreigners living in Lithuania to fundamental human rights, their conception and origin, hate crime concept and the non-discrimination principle. “KNOW Your Human Rights …
“KNOW Your Human Rights and Their Protection” (2013) Read More »
