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Civicus Monitor

As Lithuania prepares to host the NATO summit in July 2023, the country is facing a major political scandal involving politicians' expenses.

New plans have been put forth to improve protections of women with disabilities in Lithuania, where a recent study found that 93% of women with disabilities reported experiencing psychological violence at least once in their lifetime.

A monthly round-up of Liberties' work: politicians push for exceptional access to our sensitive data, EU retreats on Defence of Democracy package & inaugural Campaign Accelerator winners announced.

We have chosen three applications from a diverse and competitive applicant pool to participate in the first-ever Campaign Accelerator summer course, to be held this June.

Liberties is collecting signatures for our #MyDataMyVote petition, calling on the EU to ban the use of sensitive data in political advertising. We've answered all your questions about this topic and why we need your signature in our Q&A.

As the GDPR turns five, certain EU lawmakers want to rip out some of its protections, so they can use our deeply personal information to tailor political ads and tip political elections and campaigns in their favour.

Sign the petition to protect our freedom to vote.

In the recently published ILGA 2023 Rainbow Index Lithuania has dropped from 35th to 36th position in Europe on LGBTI rights, ahead of non-democratic Belarus, Russia and non-EU countries such as Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.