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8 March is International Women’s Day, and members of the fair sex are carrying armfuls of spring flowers and enjoying heart-warming attention. The world has been celebrating International Women’s Day for over a hundred years, but its meaning goes way deeper. Do women really enjoy the rights to parti...

The third year of the full-scale war, launched by Russia against Ukraine, which has caused Europe to receive a large flow of refugees, continues. The war affected not only Ukrainians, but also forced some natives of Russia and Belarus to flee, usually those who opposed the authorities of these two c...

The Lithuanian Greens Party on Wednesday presented its list of candidates running for elections to the European Parliament. It is the first women-only election list in Lithuania’s history, the party says.

The Constitutional Court judged Thursday that the Istanbul Convention does not contradict provisions of the Constitution of Lithuania.

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.

In 2022, there were almost 7.3 million female scientists and engineers in the EU, 310 500 more than in 2021, accounting for 41% of total employment in science and engineering, reports Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Lithuania has gone up by one notch to 27th position among 63 countries in the IMD World Talent Ranking.

Men outnumber women in management positions by almost two to one in the EU, despite women constituting 48% of the labour market.

In 2018 around 8.9 million people were employed in the European Union (EU) as ICT specialists. The profession was predominately male, as only 17 % (1.5 million) of the ICT specialists were women.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Friday urged members of the parliament to ratify the so-called Istanbul Convention against abuse of women.

Lithuania's parliament will Friday discuss the effects of ratification of the Istanbul convention for the Baltic state.