Human rights

The Lithuanian parliament's ombudsman has urged various institutions to check the Refugee Reception Centre in Rukla for possible violations of food safety, public health and fire safety regulations.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country should do everything in its power to abide by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and reduce the number of petitions reaching the European Court of Human Rights.

The Human Rights Council holds its 27th regular session from 8 to 26 September in Geneva. During the session, Lithuania and other member states of the European Union will pay particular attention to the human rights situation in Ukraine and the Middle East - Syria, the occupied Palestinian territory...

The Government of Lithuania has rejected proposed amendments, which are now being discussed in parliament, to link family to the institution of marriage. According to the Government, such a definition would be restrictive and discriminatory.

In the fairy tale book Amber Heart by Neringa Dangvydė addresses “the twilight zone":same-sex marriage, shifting identities, social exclusion taking place in front of our eyes (or carried out by us ourselves). Those things are still awkward to speak of; they are difficult to find the right words for...

In her fairy tale book Amber Heart, Neringa Dangvydė addresses "the twilight zone": same-sex marriage, shifting identities, social exclusion taking place in front of our eyes (or carried out by us ourselves). Those things are still awkward to speak of; they are difficult to find the right words for,...

Eight thousand names that are in breach of the standard language norms have been registered in Lithuania, so such forms of the person's name could be transferred to a person's identity documents, presume the representatives of the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR).

The founders of the Lithuanian Centre for the Coordination of Human Rights – director of the Foundation for the Assistance of Civil Defense Vytautas Budnikas and leader of the association Non-Partisan Democratic Movement Krescencijus Stoškus – attended a discussion at the Russian Embassy in Vilnius ...

Almost 200 participants are gathering 60 kilometers from Vilnius for Sapfo Fest, Lithuania’s third annual grassroots LBTQI (lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) festival meeting on the grounds of Šironija, a country homestead in Papiškiai, from 25 to 27 July.

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR), comprising of more than 170 non-governmental organizations, has turned to the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania and has asked for an official apology to Lithuanian Muslim community, the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) informs.

I heard the Lithuanian term for "prisoner of conscience" for the first time as a student at a Lithuanian high school in then West Germany. Around the same time, in 1984, I learned about the story of Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, then serving a prison term in Perm Oblast, deep inside Russia.