The Lithuanian Human Rights Centre has urged President Gitanas Nausėda and other presidential candidates to advocate for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Lithuania.
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The Lithuanian Film Center, together with the Center for Equality Advancement and the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights, is launching a project which aims at ensuring that the film industry is a safe environment for all those involved.
Eighty non-governmental organizations and almost 30 academicians have asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the recently-passed Law on the Strengthening of the Family.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday adopted amendments to the Law on Pubic Information, changing the way the commission for media ethics is formed.
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics came out as gay on Thursday, stirring reactions across the Baltics. Lithuanian foreign minister congratulated his colleague, while a human rights activist says the step could encourage change in Lithuania as well.
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.
