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June 20, 2016

Assuring Lithuania’s UN Legacy

One year ago on June 18, Lithuania’s Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė raised her hand at the UN Security Council in New York to vote for a resolutio

Children's Rights

June 20, 2016 Commentary

Assuring Lithuania’s UN Legacy

Bede Sheppard
Deputy Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: The Lithuania Tribune
Free Speech

September 18, 2015 News Release

Lithuania: Latvian Activist Barred From Visiting
LGBT Rights

June 11, 2015 News Release

Lithuania: Include Same-Sex Couples in Partnership Bill

News

June 10, 2015 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to the Lithuanian Minister of Justice Regarding Equal Rights in Relationship Legislation
January 21, 2014 News Release

EU: Much Talk on Rights, Few Results
June 25, 2013 News Release

Lithuania: Reopen Investigation Into Secret CIA Prisons
January 31, 2013 News Release

EU: Human Rights Sidelined Amid Crisis
October 17, 2012 Commentary

‘Traditional Values’ code for human rights abuse?

Graeme Reid
Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: CNN.com
September 1, 2010 Impact

Defending LGBT Rights Worldwide
December 8, 2009 News Release

Lithuania: Reject Homophobic Law Proposal
December 7, 2009 Letter

Letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas
July 13, 2009 News Release

Lithuania: Don’t Revive Censorship Law
July 10, 2009 Letter

Letter for Lithuania's Speaker of the Seimas
June 24, 2009 News Release

Lithuania: Reject Censorship Law
June 24, 2009 Letter

Letter to the President of the Republic of Lithuania

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Abandoned in Aleppo; Hungary's Contempt for Media Freedom; Rights Prizes Awarded

Daily Brief

October 11, 2016

Some 250,000 people have been "abandoned" by the siege in Aleppo.

Plus: Hungary has shown its contempt for media freedom; Controlling social media the old-fashioned way in Chechnya; Protesters on trial in Kazakhstan; Top rights prizes for Yazidi activist who escaped ISIS and for imprisoned Uyghur activist in China; Our #FreeThem campaign gets a boost; and acting to #EndChildMarriage.