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New Dutch Law Prohibits Discrimination Against Transgender and Intersex People

November 06, 2019 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

As of 1 November 2019 a law on equal treatment in the Netherlands has explicitly prohibited gender discrimination against transgender and intersex people. The result of the change is that organisations should become more aware that discrimination based...
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Poverty Level Among Disabled in Lithuania One of the Highest in EU

November 04, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The Poverty and Social Exclusion Review 2019 identified the poverty of disabled individuals in Lithuania as one of the highest in the EU. The overall poverty risk indicator in the country currently stands at 35%, up from 16% in 2011; for disabled peopl...
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European Judges Concerned About Erosion of Rule of Law

September 24, 2019 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Presidents of the judicial organisations in the European Union have sent a letter to EC President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, expressing their concern about the erosion of judicial independence in some EU member states. The chairs are concerned abo...
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Lithuania Lags Behind as Other EU States Embrace LGBT Rights

September 20, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

Hungarian researchers have analysed the results of the biennial public study carried out in Europe from 2002 to 2016 and found that acceptance of same sex relationships has increased in many European countries. In contrast, Lithuania, Belarus, Bulgaria...
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- Lithuania
- LGBTQI
Czech Republic and EU Funds: Development Ministry to Ask EC for More Time to Reply to PM Babiš Audit

July 25, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

The Czech Republic will ask the EC to extend its deadline for replying to a draft report on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s (ANO) alleged conflicts of interest when drawing EU funds. The EC's preliminary audit found Mr. Babiš to be in conflict of i...
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Majority in Dutch Parliament for Criminalising Humanitarian Missions at Sea

July 09, 2019 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the largest party in the Netherlands, wants to criminalise marine refugee and migrant rescue missions. After a call by the VVD, a small majority of parliamentarians (77 out of 150) showed support for ...
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Lithuania to Officially Observe Roma Genocide Remembrance Day

July 04, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The Lithuanian Parliament has approved a proposal to include the Roma Genocide Remembrance Day (2 August) to the list of observable special occasions. On 2 August 1944 the Roma concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was destroyed, with all the prison...
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UN Special Rapporteur: Social Ties Important to Mental Health and Welfare

July 02, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

Dainius Pūras, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, recently urged member states to focus on social factors affecting mental health, claiming that the "quality of social relationships … between individuals, families and communities ... acr...
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250,000 Czechs on the Streets in Biggest Protest Since the Fall of Communism

June 27, 2019 • by The League of Human Rights

The prime minister of the Czech Republic has said that he "doesn't really understand" why people are protesting after hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Prague on Monday. In a statement on his website, Prime Minister Andrej Babis denied alleg...
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"Everyone's Business" Nominated for Emerging Europe Awards

June 26, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The website VisuReikalas.lt (“Everyone’s Business”), which provides information on domestic violence, has been nominated for the international Emerging Europe awards. It was nominated for the Equality-Friendly Initiative of the Year together with ten o...
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