by HRWF | Apr 1, 2023 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
A book of fairy tales harmful for children? Macatè v. Lithuania on restricting and labelling a children’s book that depicts same-sex families in a positive light By Ingrida Milkaitė Strasbourg Observers (31.03.2023) – On 23 January 2023, the Grand Chamber of the...
by HRWF | Feb 27, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA: Orthodoxy on the eve of a split or secession from Moscow? By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (27.02.2023) – Lithuanian Orthodoxy maybe on the eve of splitting into two branches: on the one hand, the Lithuanian Orthodox Church (LOC/...
by HRWF | Jan 23, 2023 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
A children’s book of fairy tales and same-sex marriages Labelling a book of fairy tales as harmful to children solely because of LGBTI content breached the Convention Registrar of the European Court (23.01.2023) – The case of Macatė v. Lithuania (application...
by HRWF | Aug 1, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Russia
Head of Russian Orthodox Church banned from entering Lithuania By Anna Neplii Kyiv Post (30.07.2022) – https://bit.ly/3Bx0kzy – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has confirmed a ban on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir...
by HRWF | Jun 10, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Conscientious objection: Jehovah’s Witnesses win a case in Strasbourg Registrar of the European Court (07.06.2022) – In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Teliatnikov v. Lithuania (application no. 51914/19) the European Court of Human Rights held,...