EFHR

Welcome to our new trainee Kinga Pytel

Congratulations to the trainee Kinga Pytel on joining the EFHR team! Kinga is a third year Russian philology student at Adam Mickiewicz
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Meet our new Volunteer, Katarzyna Borowska!

Katarzyna Borowska is a new Volunteer at the EFHR. She was raised in United Kingdom where she successfully completed her
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Lithuanian education policy (2021–2030) – EFHR evaluates the signed agreement

On September 1, 2021, in the seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the chairmen of the political parties signed an agreement
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The EFHR welcomes a new team member

Congratulations to the lawyer Darius Kazinec on joining the EFHR team! Darius holds a Master of Laws degree from Mykolas
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New EFHR Volunteer – Brigita Gerikaitė

Brigita Gerikaitė is a fourth year International Relations & Chinese student at Goldsmiths University of London. Brigita became interested in
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A new member of the EFHR team – Lawyer-administrator Agata Palinska

Agata was born and grew up in Vilnius, where she graduated from the National M.K.Čiurlionis School of Arts (specialising in
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New EFHR office in Vilnius

European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR), a non-governmental organisation that works every day to protect human rights and national minorities’
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Minority rights, discrimination and a vision for the future at EFHR conference

Does the society know and accept national minorities? Would Lithuanians like to live and work with Poles, Russians and Romas?
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International online conference on national minority rights in Lithuania on May 26

  European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR) was established in 2010 as a response to the violations and abuse of
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Be Hate Free: A project is starting to meet the main challenges related to hate

The European Foundation of Human Rights together with partners – the Lithuanian Human Rights Center, the Vytautas Magnus University and the
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Season’s greetings ⭐️

  May the Christmas season finish this year on a happy note! We hope that this challenging year together have
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European Foundation of Human Rights is celebrating its 10th anniversary

  The foundation was established in 2010 as a response to the violations and abuse of human rights and the
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On December 10th, an international conference on hate crimes

On December 10th, an international conference “Promoting effective response to hate crimes and hate speech in Lithuania” will take place
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Farewell with a volunteer became a bubble party

On the morning of the 15 th July a volunteer of the special needs kindergarten “Ciauskutis” Michela Plavan together with
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Draft legislation on national minorities is complete

On 16th July 2020, works on the draft bill on national minorities have been completed. Subsequently, the project has been
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CJEU rules on homophobic statements made by employers

On 23rd April  2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that those who publicly declare that
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A victory over ‘Viktorija’ – Viktoria’s name accepted in court

Article 2.20 part 1 of the Civil Code of Lithuania establishes that every person has the right to a name.
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European Foundation of Human Rights draws attention to the funding of minority media

In 2020 January 15th there was information published online that the Press, Radio and Television Sponsorship Foundation (hereafter – the
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The authorities approved the idea of supporting minority media projects with a separate funding line

In the early February of 2020, the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR) drew attention to the funding of minority
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EFHR met with researches to discuss national minority rights

On 12th March 2020, representatives of the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR) met with three researchers working on the
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