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Milda Vainiute
30 April 2019
At the meeting organized on the initiative of the Seimas Ombudsman, representatives of state institutions and non-governmental organizations listened to activity results of the monitoring report of 2018 on implementation of Social Integration of the Disabled and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Following the report, the Department for the Affairs of the Disabled highlighted the main weaknesses in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the country.
The report shows that the country does not adequately ensure the participation of people with disabilities in political and social life. "There is a need to improve the legislative provisions on securing access to elections (physical environment and information), and to allocate funds and adapt it appropriately to people with disabilities in polling stations" reveals the report.
'The availability of schools for physically disabled children remains a major problem, and schools for children with other disabilities are still not well prepared. These are worrying indicators” noted Augustinas Normantas, the Seimas Ombudsman, Head of the National Human Rights Institution, emphasising that people with physical disabilities still have difficulty in implementing their constitutional right.
12 March 2019
Augustinas Normantas, Head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office and Vytautas Valentinavičius, Head of the Human Rights Division together with Jean-Sébastien Blanc, Director of Thematic Programmes of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), accredited to the United Nations, discussed the peculiarities of treatment of patients with tuberculosis in prisons and mental health institutions.
The APT representatives stressed that the treatment of people with tuberculosis should not differ from the treatment of other individuals in those institutions, and that an immediate isolation of convicted persons or persons with mental and behavioural disorders is unacceptable and does not comply with the principles of protection against torture established in the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
10 February 2019
The problematic issues of reorganisation being held in places of imprisonment were discussed on the initiative of the Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas together with Edita Žiobiene, the Children's rights ombudsperson with the representatives of the Lithuanian Trade Union "Solidarity," the Ministry of Justice and the Prison Department.
One of the most debated issues has been raised by representatives of the Lithuanian Trade Union "Solidarity", which questioned the abolishment of the health care professionals at night shifts in prisons. A. Normanas pointed out that the ongoing reorganisation may lead to a worsening of access to health care for prisoners.
The Seimas Ombudsman noted that the reform of the imprisonment system should not undermine the quality of health care services: “The state assumes unlimited liability for the person from the moment of deprivation of liberty, and such person is absolutely in the hands of the state”.