violence against children

Specialists and scientists of the Nordic countries will attend a conference at the Lithuanian parliament on Friday share their experience on fighting violence against children.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has decided to annul 38 out of the 1,328 findings in 2016 and 2017 cases of violence against small children where the investigations were dropped.

Almost 68 percent of the Lithuanian population are in favour of the corporal punishment of children being banned by law, a survey carried out by the pollster RAIT for BNS has shown.

The Council of Europe's commissioner and a US-based organization Human Rights Watch on Tuesday welcomed the Lithuanian decision to ban corporal punishment of children.

Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday adopted amendments to the Framework Law on Children's Rights Protection on the fast track, which bans all types of violence against children, including corporal punishments.

Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Minister Linas Kukuraitis says that two competing approaches, one of which centers on children's rights and the other underlines the importance of the family, are compatible.

The Lithuanian parliament will on February 14 hold a one-day extraordinary session to address children's protection issues.

The Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry will seek that a ban on corporal punishment be included into a framework law on children's rights protection, Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's Ombudsperson for Children's Rights Edita Žiobienė says that violence against children is viewed more leniently than violence against adults.

The death of a 4-year-old boy in Kėdainiai, central Lithuania, after severe beating at home has caused Lithuanian politicians and public to again shift their attention to the situation of child's rights.

At least one child beaten at home is admitted to the Lithuanian Kaunas Clinic every month, and the number of brutal violence against children is increasing, says Rimantas Kevalas, the head of the Children's Hospital of the Kaunas Clinic.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called for resumed discussion on centralization of protection of child's rights.

After the tragic death of a 4-year-old after beating in his home in Kėdainiai, central Lithuania, a civil campaign was held outside the parliament on Friday aimed at stepping up efforts against violence against children.

Lithuania's Social Security and Labour Minister Linas Kukuraitis maintains that the repeating cases of violence against children prove that the existing child's rights protection system does not work.