Publications by the Human Rights Monitoring Institute
4 July. 5 pm. The 11th edition of the Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library was presented The Eleventh Review of the Situation of Human Rights in Lithuania “Human Rights in Lithuania 2020-2021”. The Human Rights Watch biennial report on the human rights situation, prepared in cooperation with independent experts, covers key developments in the areas …
After assessing the human rights of foreigners in places of temporary accommodation, the Seimas Ombudsman, Head of the Office Augustinas Normantas submitted a report recommending the Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonyte to pay attention to violations identified in the report and take all measures to ensure that admission of foreigners fully complies with the European and international law, …
We are inviting you to read a summary of the research HATE-CRIMES-AND-HATE-SPEECH-OVERVIEW-OF-THE-SITUATION-IN-LITHUANIA carried out by European Foundation of Human Rights, together with the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights and Lithuanian Police School. This publication is in the framework of the implementation of the project “#PoliceAcademy_LT: Promoting Effective Response to Hate Crime and Hate Speech in …
HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH: OVERVIEW OF THE SITUATION IN LITHUANIA Read More »
What is a hate crime? View information in Lithuanian, English, Russian languages. A tagged car, a broken store window or a stolen cane may at first all seem like random acts of violence until we look at the motivation behind them. The car that was tagged, belonged to a lesbian couple known in the neighborhood; the …
Hate Crime: what is it and what to do when facing it? Read More »
Human Rights Monitoring Institute invites to read overview Human Rights in Lithuania 2018-2019. It is our 10th overview which is the only periodic assessment of the human rights situation in Lithuania conducted by 19 independent experts from various fields.
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 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 …
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 »
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has established the obligation of the state parties to create visiting bodies for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, i.e. the National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs). Most of the Baltic and Nordic countries have ratified this protocol, with the …
An Overview of Torture Prevention Systems in Russia, Lithuania, Sweden and Norway Read More »
The police interview of a suspect is often crucial to his case. In order to ensure that the data collected during interviews are legitimate and reliable, the rights of suspects – the right to know, the right to translation, the right to a defence and others – must be guaranteed. These rights of suspects are …
In the interview room: procedural rights of suspects in Lithuania Read More »
