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Milda Vainiute
6 January 2020
A recent study by the Seimas Ombudsmen revealed that after the ongoing review of the incapacity of individuals, there are still more than 1,600 incapacitated individuals in the country, whose rights have so far been unduly restricted. These particularly puzzling findings and other loopholes in the legal review procedure were presented by the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office in a report in which the Seimas Ombudsman commented on a particularly inefficient implementation of the incapacity review procedure.
Augustinas Normantas, head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office, points out that while visiting incapacitated persons in places of deprivation of liberty, doubts arose over quality of implementation of the law, which stipulates that court judgments issued until 1 January 2016 regarding the declaration of persons to be incapacitated must be reviewed within two years. After noticing that the rights of the majority of persons in places of deprivation of liberty are still unreasonably restricted, the Seimas Ombudsman decided to find out what were the reasons for the inefficient implementation of the incapacity review procedure.
“The limitation of a person's rights must be lawful and limited to a legally reasonable period of time. It also should be emphasised that the person's right to apply to the court regarding a review of his/her incapacity is one of his/her most important rights. The decision to declare a person incapacitated may result in restriction to realize all of his/her other rights and freedoms; therefore, such deprivation of legal capacity of a person is considered to be a particularly serious restriction of his/her rights and a person can be declared incapacitated only in very special cases,” observes the Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas.
16 December 2019
On December 10, the World Human Rights Day commemorated during the annual National Human Rights Forum in Vilnius. The 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired the topics to be discussed during the event.
NFHR invited the public to review the human rights situation in the country - what should be done to make Lithuania an excellent place to live for people of all nationalities, races, faiths, genders, social backgrounds, beliefs or beliefs. It was no coincidence that this year's forum was dedicated to discussing child rights issues - Lithuania is elected a member of the UNICEF Board for the period 2019-2021.
11 November 2019
The results of a published recent study revealed the unpleasant truth: not all professionals working in care homes have the necessary knowledge on proper enforcement of residents' rights. The report presented by the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office reveals that the rights of particularly vulnerable residents are often unjustifiably restricted; however, specialists, who behave with the residents disrespectfully do not perceive their actions as flawed because they lack the necessary human rights expertise.
Augustinas Normantas, Head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office, said he felt the need for such an unusual investigation when he realised that most human rights abuses in social care institutions were linked to the lack of knowledge amongst staff about human rights issues. And the frequent inability of the staff of these institutions to respond to such an important demand for assurance of human rights has a profound negative impact on the welfare, sometimes even the safety, and quality of the services provided by social care institutions.