<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Human Rights in Lithuania, November 2008</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/W4KDZI</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Human Rights Monitoring Institute</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2025-12-23</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-03-05T07:55:59Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>&lt;b>&lt;i>
The purpose of the study&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
to analyze the Lithuanian system for the protection of human rights, identify how people protect violated (abused) rights and how they assess effectiveness of various institutions assuring the human rights. 
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Major investigated questions&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
respondents were asked whether the information about human rights is sufficient and whether they know where to appeal if human rights are violated. They were also asked whether they experienced the violation of human rights by themselves during recent years and whether they appealed because of violation of human rights. Those respondents, who did not appeal, were asked why did not appeal, and those who appealed, were asked where they tried to defend their violated rights. Respondents were asked who determines whether a person is guilty for doing a crime and to identify which certain actions violate human rights. It was also examined what social group is discriminated in Lithuania the most. Respondents were asked what human rights are mostly violated and what institutions mostly violate the human rights.
&lt;br>&lt;b>&lt;i>Socio-demographic characteristics&lt;/i>&lt;/b>: 
gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, monthly family income per one family member, place of residence, region.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>age discrimination</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>civil and political rights</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>court officials and personnel</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>courts</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>disability discrimination</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>freedom of speech</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>gender discrimination</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>health care facilities</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>human rights violations</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>legislature</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>nationality discrimination</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>personal safety</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>police services</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>prosecution service</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>right to justice</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>right to privacy</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>right to property</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:language>Lithuanian</dcterms:language><dcterms:date>2008-11-15</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Gaidys, Vladas (UAB "Vilmorus", Lithuania)</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2011-03-08</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-15</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-07</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2008-11-15</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:type>Survey data</dcterms:type><dcterms:spatial>Lithuania</dcterms:spatial><dcterms:rights>&lt;p>The description of the dataset (&lt;b>metadata&lt;/b>) is freely and openly available to both registered and unregistered users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the terms of the &lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
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