Human rights

Lithuania has applied restrictive measures against 11 Georgian politicians, including former prime minister Bidzina Ivanisvhili, forbidding them to access the country for committing human rights violations in their response to recent mass demonstrations in Tbilisi.

On Thursday, 7 November, the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) held coalition talks with the Liberal Movement. Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, afterwards told the media that both parties share similar views on human rights issues but their opinions on taxat...

Dictatorships in Russia and Belarus, then a full-scale war that Russia launched against Ukraine pushed millions of people to migrate abroad. The total number of foreigners in Lithuania crossed the record mark of 200,000 last year, according to official data from the Migration Department. How locals ...

On Friday April 19 Lithuanian Delfi and the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania hosted panel conference titled “Baltic Bridge to Alienating Societies: Discovering Shared Values to Ensure Regional Stability”. The conferences organisers invited a number of experts and professional from various sp...

Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...

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.

Как белорусам пережить кошмар реальности, в которой на репрессии режима Лукашенко накладываются и обвинения в соучастии в войне России против Украины. Расспросили об этом Сергея Попова, врача-психиатра, психотерапевта и психоаналитика, члена Международной психоаналитической ассоциации (IPA). Он расс...

Tarptautinė žmogaus teisių organizacija “Human rights Watch” paskelbė tyrimo išvadas, kurios teigia, kad Izraelio valstybė vykdo apartheidą, siekdama išlaikyti viršenybę prieš palestiniečius ir savo gyventojus arabus. Izraelis išvadas pavadino melagingomis ir absurdiškomis.

The amendments to the Law on Intelligence, proposed by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, would expand the powers of intelligence services but some of them might run counter to human rights and distort the essence of intelligence, lawyers and lawmakers who looked into the bill say.

The Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas, in his latest thematic report on the human rights situation in detention facilities, notes that following the urgent transfer of convicts from Lukiškės Remand Prison to other prisons, the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office received a significant number of complaints...

Public policy agenda theorists are convinced that not all social issues, including human rights, find their way to the public political agenda. Their achieving emergence on the agenda is a fierce struggle – a battle between public policymakers and interest groups that influence the emergence of part...

John Bolton, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, met with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday.

The Seimas of Lithuania is violating human rights after it failed to grant state recognition to Romuva, an ancient Baltic religious community, on Thursday, the community's priestress Inija Trinkuniene says.

Darius Raulusaitis, a former deputy prosecutor general, denies having put pressure on the prosecutor in charge of a pre-trial investigation into the alleged CIA detention site in Lithuania.

Lithuania's parliament has merely one ballot left until adoption of the so-called Magnitsky Act, which would ban entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations.

Lithuania's Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations is making headway in the parliament.

Lithuania violates the rights of prisoners serving life sentences by depriving them of any hope of release, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday.

“While considerable progress has been achieved in protecting human rights in recent years, the Lithuanian authorities still have to address some remaining shortcomings, in particular as regards the protection of women, children and persons with disabilities” said Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Co...

Lithuania has denied entry to representatives of a Russian foundation that is on the national blacklist, a move that Moscow has said will not go unanswered.

Residents of Lithuania are unlikely to stand up for their rights that have been violated, shows the latest poll.