Human rights

70 статей

Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

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...

Елизавета Дако

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...

Vytautas Valentinavičius, Head of the Human Rights Division of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office, a PhD candidate in political science of KTU

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...

the Lithuania Tribune, DELFI

An attack in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, shocked the world just one week before an LGBT pride event in Lithuania. Some of the reactions to the news from Orlando made it clear that homophobia is still a huge problem in the country. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking...