Strategic litigation initiated by the Human Rights Monitoring Institute
The Human Rights Monitoring Institute, together with the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights, the Lithuanian Gay League and ILGA Europe, has submitted a position paper to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the implementation of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Macatė v. Lithuania. …
In 2022, Lithuania ratified the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. This legislation has enabled an individual complaint procedure, which gives children the opportunity to complain to the United Nations when their rights are violated and the legal system of the country where the …
On August 23, 2023 The Vilnius Regional Administrative Court ruled to annul the letter of the Migration Department and ordered the Migration Department to re-examine the applicant’s application. The Court found that the Migration Department had not complied with the rules which should have ensured an objective assessment of all the circumstances and the validity …
The Vilnius Regional Administrative Court in case No. el3-9170-1161/2023 stated that the provisions of the legislation regulating the time limits for examination of asylum applications are imperative, therefore, they do not give the right to the Migration Department to decide on the extension of the time limit for application. The applicant left his country of …
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 European Court of Human Rights has handed down a significant ruling in the case of Macatė v. Lithuania, which concerns the distribution of a children’s book of fairy tales featuring same-sex relationships. The book’s distribution was halted soon after its publication in 2013 and resumed a year later only after being labelled as potentially …
The European Court of Human Rights rules against Lithuania in a freedom of speech case Read More »
In the 31 May 2018 ECtHR judgment in the case of Abu Zubaydah v. Lithuania, the Court found that a secret CIA detention site operated in Lithuania for more than a year. Lithuania violated the principles of the ECHR From February 2005 to March 2006, Abu Zubaydah, linked with the organization of the 9/11 attacks, …
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 …
Update to the Council of Europe on the execution of L v. Lithuania judgment Read More »
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the existing ban on the commutation of life sentences in Lithuania violates the rights of the convicted. In the case Matiošaitis and others v. Lithuania, eight life prisoners sought a ruling that Lithuania violated Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment). Parole …
Lithuania found in violation of life prisoners’ rights Read More »
The European Court of Human Rights will have to determine whether the images of Jesus and Mary in advertising are contrary to public morals. It has agreed to examine the complaint of designer Robert Kalinkin (represented by the Human Rights Monitoring Institute in this case) regarding the undue restriction of his freedom of expression. Fined …
Can Jesus Wear Jeans in Lithuania? The Strasbourg Court Will Decide Read More »
