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Milda Vainiute
2018 m. balandžio 3 d.
At the meeting with experts on human rights and mental health, the Seimas Ombudsmen Augustinas Normantas and Raimondas Šukys discussed the conformity of the amendments to the Law Mental Health Care with the international obligations of the country in the field of human rights.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice and non-governmental organisations together with the Seimas Ombudsmen, discussed the implementation of recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Lithuania related to Article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other provisions.
Introducing the draft law to the Seimas Ombudsmen Director of the State Mental Health Centre Ona Davidonienė noted that the law is being amended for the first time. Therefore the amendments seek to encompass the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
The new law establishes an obligation to consider compulsory hospitalisation and treatment in court with the participation of the patient. Moreover, the draft law foresees a possibility for the patient to appeal against the decision regarding compulsory hospitalisation to a higher instance court.
24 February 2018
The Seimas Ombudsmen's Office was granted a certificate attesting to its compliance with the Parise Principles during the General Assembly of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) on 20-23 February 2018.
Seimas Ombudsman Raimondas Šukys and Chief Counsellor of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office Vytautas Valentinavičius attended the working group on the improvement of the accreditation mechanism of national human rights institutions organised by the European National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) in Geneva. During the special session dedicated to CRPD issues, the representatives of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office discussed the role of national human rights institutions in encouraging the states to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
7 February 2018
The number of residents who know where to turn for violated human rights has increased, a new poll shows. On violations of human rights, people tend to turn to courts, the Seimas Ombudsmen or police and prosecutor. The general public is less confident in media and other Lithuanian human rights bodies, according to the representative public poll’s survey though.
Even though confidence in Lithuanian human rights agencies is extremely low, trust in the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office has risen. The survey revealed that the courts (13.5 percent) and the Seimas Ombudsmen (7.1 percent) were the most trusted among Lithuanian human rights agencies. In comparison to the previous year (6.3 percent), and 3.4 percent in 2015, the confidence in the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office has increased dramatically.
The polls showed that more than half of the population would know where to find support (57,5 percent) if their rights were violated. This number was lower in 2015 (52.6 percent) and a bit higher in 2014 (54 percent). However, the percentage of those who knew where to turn when their rights were violated was at a record low – just 27.9 percent in 2013.
The number of people whose rights were violated in municipal and governmental institutions increased almost in two percent this year (14 percent) compared to 12.3 percent in 2016, 16.0 percent in 2016, 18.0 percent in 2014, and 20.0 percent in 2013.
The survey was conducted in January 2018 and revealed that the number of people aware that the Seimas Ombudsmen protected human rights increased (44.4 percent) compared to 42.5 percent in 2016 and 43.2 percent in 2015. In comparison to 2013 when the numbers were extremely low: 34.5 percent in 2013 and just 24.3 percent in 2012, the percentage of people who know that the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office protects human rights has almost doubled.