Human Rights in Lithuania, May 2002
type: Dataset
creator: Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
  type: Organization
  parent organization: LT: Lithuania
author: Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
  type: Organization
  parent organization: LT: Lithuania
date published: 2025-12-23
date modified: 2025-12-23
version: 1
description: The purpose of the study: 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. Major investigated questions: Respondents were asked to assess the Lithuanian system for the protection of human rights and issues related to main human rights (right to protection of private life; right to information; right to participate in the country governance; right to work; right to health protection; consumer rights; rights of the child; rights of the elderly; rights of the disabled; rights of victims; rights of suspects and defendants; rights of migrants and refugees; rights of ethnic minorities; rights of sexual minorities; prevention of trafficking in human beings; rights of women). Respondents were also asked about sufficiency and scope of attention given to the above issues in Lithuania and work of various institutions (Presidency, Seimas (parliament), Government, courts, media, non-governmental organisations) in assuring the human rights. Also probed were respondents' views on what institutions they would apply to in case of violation of rights; have rights of respondents been violated (abused) during the recent years and if so, what rights and where she/he applied to; have institutions analysed the violated rights and which of the violated rights were restored. Respondents were asked what sources of information provide most knowledge on the situation of human rights in Lithuania and gave evaluation of the human rights policy in Lithuania. Socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, education, occupation, marital status, nationality, number of family members, number of children under 16 years of age in a family, income per family member per month, place of residence, region. The survey data were collected at the request of the Commission for the Implementation of the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protectio…
keywords: Social Sciences
keywords: Equality, inequality and social exclusion
keywords: Legislation and legal systems
keywords: access to health services
keywords: children's rights
keywords: civil and political rights
keywords: consumer protection
keywords: courts
keywords: crime victims
keywords: elderly
keywords: ethnic minorities
keywords: government
keywords: heads of state
keywords: human rights violations
keywords: human trafficking
keywords: legal systems
keywords: legislature
keywords: LGBTQI+ rights
keywords: mass media
keywords: migrants
keywords: persons with disabilities
keywords: private voluntary organizations
keywords: refugees
keywords: right to information
keywords: right to privacy
keywords: right to property
keywords: right to work
keywords: rights of accused
keywords: rights of prisoners
keywords: women's rights
temporal coverage: 2002-05-09/2002-05-12
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included in data catalog: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
publisher: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
provider: Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)
funder: United Nations Development Programme (Support to development of national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Republic of Lithuania)
spatial coverage: Lithuania
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