When the so-called migration crisis hit Lithuania in 2021, it became clear that Lithuania was unprepared for the challenge of the migration phenomenon in various senses, both in the short and the long term. While attempts are still being made to paint the migrant crisis as a “well-managed hybrid attack crisis”, it is important to …
Analytical study: the situation of migrants and asylum seekers in Lithuania Read More »
The 12th Human Rights Monitoring Institute’s biennial report on human rights, produced in partnership with various human rights experts, covers key developments in the areas of freedom of expression, assembly and religion, discrimination, violence against women, rights of LGBTQI+ community, rights of people with disabilities, rights of convicted persons, human trafficking victims, rights of migrants …
In this academic article we discuss the relationship between mental health and human rights, which is integral and interdependent. There are clinical, social and economic reasons, as well as moral and legal obligations to advance mental health care as fundamental to human rights. Significant considerations for this matter are especially crucial when addressing the COVID-19 …
The Right to Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Read More »
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 »
The Comparative Report “Tackling Hate Crime and Hate Speech in Europe” was elaborated as one of the outputs of the project titled Tackling Hate Crime and Hate Speech that has been jointly implemented by non-governmental organisations from Slovakia (People in Need), Czech Republic (In IUSTITIA), Hungary (Subjective Values Foundation), Lithuania (Human Rights Monitoring Institute), and Malta …
The right to a lawyer and the right to legal aid is increasingly seen as a vital component of a fair and accessible justice system, and necessary for redressing situations where rights are denied or violated. Fairness and accessibility of the justice system are especially important for the individuals subject to criminal proceedings. They justly …
Accessible Justice – access to a lawyer study (2017) Read More »
Under the EU Directive on right to criminal proceedings adopted in 2012, each arrested suspect must be provided with a written letter indicating and detailing their rights in the criminal proceedings. This document may be essential in ensuring a fair investigation and trial for the suspect, as only through understanding their rights can they fully …
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, …
Within the European Union, there are over 120,000 people being held in pre-trial detention at any given time. That’s more than 1 in 5 people held in prison that haven’t yet been found guilty of any crime. In June 2014, Fair Trials, Human Rights Monitoring Institute and 9 other organisations set out to collect a …
Measure of last resort? Report on detention in EU Read More »
HRMI conducted a wide, unique, evidence-based research on PTD decision-making process and the use of alternatives through in-depth surveys of defense practitioners, monitoring detention hearings, reviewing case files, and interviewing prosecutors and judges. “The results of the research gave a twofold impression. On the one hand, the overall assessment of the situation in Lithuania is …
The practice of pre-trial detention in Lithuania (2015) Read More »
