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Lithuanian, UK officers conduct joint human trafficking probe
Lithuanian and UK officers are conducting a joint probe into human trafficking, police in the port city of Klaipėda said on Thursday. […]
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Audience of news on Russian TV channels down by 1/3 in Lithuania
The number of viewers news broadcasts on Russian-language television channels has declined by a third in Lithuania, shows a poll published by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. […]
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Minister of Social Affairs wants corporal punishment banned by law
The Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry will seek that a ban on corporal punishment be included into a framework law on children’s rights protection, Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis said on Tuesday. […]
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Violence against children viewed wrong in Lithuania – ombudsperson
Lithuania’s Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights Edita Žiobienė says that violence against children is viewed more leniently than violence against adults. […]
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Politicians focus on child’s rights after violence against 4 years old
The death of a 4-year-old boy in Kėdainiai, central Lithuania, after severe beating at home has caused Lithuanian politicians and public to again shift their attention to the situation of child’s rights. […]
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Brutal violence against children up in Lithuania – doctor
At least one child beaten at home is admitted to the Lithuanian Kaunas Clinic every month, and the number of brutal violence against children is increasing, says Rimantas Kevalas, the head of the Children’s Hospital of the Kaunas Clinic. […]
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President calls for centralized decision on child removal from family
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called for resumed discussion on centralization of protection of child‘s rights. […]
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Hundreds of candles lit outside Seimas against violence against children
After the tragic death of a 4-year-old after beating in his home in Kėdainiai, central Lithuania, a civil campaign was held outside the parliament on Friday aimed at stepping up efforts against violence against children. […]
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Court issues arrest warrant for murdered child’s mother, stepfather
A Lithuanian court has issued arrest warrants for the mother and stepfather of the 4-year-old boy who died of severe beating early on Friday. […]
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SocMin pledges revamp of child’s rights scheme after child beating
Lithuania’s Social Security and Labour Minister Linas Kukuraitis maintains that the repeating cases of violence against children prove that the existing child’s rights protection system does not work. […]
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Culture minister backs idea of Vilnius Museum
Lithuania’s Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson has expressed support to the idea of establishing a Vilnius Museum in the country’s capital. […]
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EC Andriukaitis agrees that Lithuanian doctors should ‘work off’ in regions for degree
European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania in charge of health care and food safety agrees that doctors who receive degrees for money provided by the state should be put under the obligation of working it off in regions. […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day events begin in Lithuania
Events marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day are getting underway in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
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Taxi crashes into Seimas speaker’s BMW
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis got into a minor accident in central Vilnius on Wednesday morning but escaped uninjured. […]
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Lithuanian MPs, mayor want city museum in Vilnius
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius of the Liberal Movement has been urged by a group of parliamentarians to found a museum of the Lithuanian capital. […]