“I am a person who wears more than one “hat”: what I fail to do as an academic, I try to achieve by working with non-governmental organisations,” says Prof. Dainius Pūras, Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute and one of the co-founders. Other D. Pūras activities include teaching at Vilnius University, working as a …
Transgender people’s rights under EU law are protected in 4 areas: access to and supply of goods and services, access to employment and social security, crime victims’ rights, and right to request asylum.1 However, Lithuania is failing to meet its obligations to transgender people. Indeed, there are administrative and judicial processes for changing personal names …
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On 30 September 2023, The Human Rights Monitoring Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary. Henrikas Mickevičius, one of the founders of the HRMI, a lawyer, an expert in European Union law and human rights, and a former member of the United Nations Working Group on Abductions and Enforced Disappearances, explains how the Institute was born, what …
On July 14, 2023, The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania initiated an amendment to a provision in the Law on the Protection of Minors from the Negative Effects of Public Information, which was found to be discriminatory against people of the LGBTQI+ community. The Human Rights Monitoring Institute supports this proposal and …
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