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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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Belgian Arms Export Licenses To Saudi Arabia Cancelled

June 17, 2019 • by Camille Van Durme, Belgian League of Human Rights

The Belgium Council of State has decided to cancel arms export licenses to Saudi Arabia. This move comes as a result of appeals lodged by the National Coordination for Peace and Democracy and the League of Human Rights (LDH), and also partly because no...
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- arms export
Top Brands Express Support for Lithuanian LGBT Community

June 12, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

Baltic Pride took place in Lithuania last week, with famous brands coming out in support of the Lithuanian LGBT community, including: Ecodenta, IKEA, the MO museum, Ozas, Red Bull, Swedbank, Švyturys GO Nealkoholinis, Telia Lithuania and Vilnius Univer...
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Resolution Welcoming LGBT+ People Fails Before Baltic Pride

May 31, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

With the Baltic Pride March for Equality, which will take place in Vilnius on 8 June, fast approaching, T. Raskevičius, member of the Vilnius City Council and a human rights activist, proposed a Council resolution welcoming the LGBT community. The reso...
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Croatian Media Reports on 'Torture Garage' for Migrants

May 24, 2019 • by Lovorka Šošić, Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia

The online news outlet H-alter reports that, over the past six months, many eye-witness accounts have emerged suggesting that Croatian police are detaining and torturing refugees and migrants in a garage at the police station in Korenica, Croatia. The ...
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Court: Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson Made Right Call on Limited Accessibility Clinic

May 24, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

A clinic in a major Lithuanian city has taken the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson to court in response to it finding the clinic to not be properly accessible to people of limited mobility. However, the judges dismissed the lawsuit, stating that the li...
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- Lithuania
- people with disabilities