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A family of Afghan asylum seekers, represented by the Lithuanian Red Cross, has won a strategic case in court. A Švenčionys district court recognized that the family, which has two small children (aged 5 and 8), could...
France's lower house of Parliament passed a bill on March 17 allowing patients near the end of their lives to stop medical treatment and request deep sedation until they die. The draft law passed in the lower house...
According to a survey published this February, 80 percent of religious minority communities in Lithuania feel discriminated against, with the primary factor being the Roman Catholic Church. Many respondents claimed...
It is a dark time for harm reduction in Hungary: another life-saving service has fallen victim to political paranoia.
An educational project visiting different schools in the country lends "living books," members of various minorities who share their stories with children.
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The Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school. The court in Karlsruhe said religious symbols could only be banned when they...
On the basis of the EU directive on the status of refugees, a deserter can get asylum if he can substantiate his claim that his military unit will commit war crimes and that desertion was the only way for him not to...
"[C]itizens' rights in Lithuania are infringed. LGBTI people [...] are pushed back [into] the closet. They have to be afraid that their public actions, holding hands in the street or placing a photo on their Facebook...
How do court volunteers contribute to the carriage of justice, and could a support network of these volunteers take hold in Lithuania? These questions were discussed in Vilnius between NGO and justice and law enforcement representatives.
Three human rights organizations have published their analysis of the proposed EU directive on the presumption of innocence, and made recommendations for amendments, to ensure its compliance with international human rights law.
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