The Labourist Speaker of the Seimas, Vydas Gedvilas, who had a taste of his father’s belt as a child, is criticising a law project discussed in the Parliament which would ban any kind of violence against children, www.delfi.lt wrote. “I don’t think you can regulate …
BNS During the upcoming presidency of the EU Council, during discussions on youth policies, Lithuania intends to stress the need to integrate young people, who do not work or study, into public activities, Lithuanian Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė said. Last week, …
Tomorrow, on 18 May, for the seventh time in a row, the streets of Lithuania will welcome the Street Musicians’ Day festival. The streets of Vilnius, Kaunas, Kuršėnai, Varėna, Jonava, Klaipėda, Mažeikiai, Palanga, Radviliškis, Šilutė, Šilalė, Telšiai, Utena, Nida Vilkaviškis, Visaginas, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Tauragė, and, …
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with the President of the newly established Indian Community in Lithuania, Chander Shekhar, about the community’s immediate plans and future activity directions. TLT: Apart from promoting Indian culture and interpersonal cooperation between the Baltic States and India, what other goals does the Indian Baltic Community …
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has presented Vilnius with 7,600 flowers: 3,800 tulips and 3,800 pansies, www.vilnius.lt has informed. The flowers have gloriously bloomed on the 120m2 lawn of the Olandų žiedas (roundabout). Vilnius, represented by the secretary of the council of …
On 17 May, 2013, the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) will officially launch Baltic Pride 2013 promotional videos, www.atviri.lt reported. The main purpose of these videos is not only to invite everyone to the Baltic Pride 2013 events this July, but also to speak about broader …
BNS Human trafficking has lately been taking a new shape – people are not only sold into sex slavery, but an increase has been observed in the number of children taken abroad to shoplift and adult men sold into forced labour, says prosecutor Arunas Meška …
BNS A fund in charge of compensations for the Jewish properties has received about 1,000 applications from Holocaust survivors for compensation. Faina Kukliansky, the leader of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, is considering postponement of the application deadline, as some people learned about the opportunity to …
According to the latest data from the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, the most desirable young bachelors from abroad, Germans, have lost their popularity over the years, writes ru.DELFI.lt. Russians are now the second most popular men to marry for Lithuanian women. Interest in them has been …
BNS The Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Community call on against allowing the use of non-Lithuanian letters in documents and also call for the unification of the Lithuanian language exam for Lithuanian and ethnic minority school graduates. …
On Friday, 10 May, 2013 at 12.00, President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with school students and volunteers will participate in the presentation of the logo of the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council, which will take place near the White Bridge. During the event, the logo …
Marius Vaitkevičius a Gabija Gymnasium student from Mažeikiai, Lithuania, is a grand prize winner for a video he produced for the “World of 7 Billion” student video contest, Amy Phillips Bursch from Population Connection has informed the Lithuania Tribune. Marius’s video – which showed the …
BNS Lithuania’s Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis has refused to sign the draft National Minority Law, the minister’s spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday. “The bill still needs further discussions, it has too many gaps for the minister to put his signature under,” spokeswoman Dalia Vencevičienė told BNS. …
BNS Lithuania has better conditions for raising a child than neighbouring Latvia, Poland and Russia, the annual survey by Save the Children, which is published on Tuesday, showed. This year, Lithuania and Belarus both rank 26th among 176 countries. Poland (28), Luxembourg (29), the United …
MP Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė maintained that if Norwegian child protection representatives came to Lithuania they would take away all Lithuanian children living in the asocial families, writes www.delfi.lt. According to her, Scandinavians would not tolerate the conditions in which under-age children from the social risk group …
The Lithuania Tribune presents the article about drug couriers from the Baltic States arrested in Peru, published by the Baltic Centre for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica. According to Re:Baltica, in one year, about 230 people from the Baltic States were arrested in foreign countries for drug …
Today, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has met with psychologists, scientists and NGO representatives to discuss suicide rates in Lithuania and the measures that should be taken to solve this social problem effectively and quickly, the Press Service of the President has informed. According to the …
BNS Around 500 people took part in an International Labour Day march in central Vilnius on Wednesday. The majority of participants were wearing the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania’s accessories, with the party’s flags, slogans and red balloons were seen in the crowd which moved …
BNS Trust in the majority of institutions in Lithuania was down a bit in a month, a recent survey showed. According to the results of the survey carried out on Apr. 10-14 by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus for the Lietuvos Rytas daily, …
Maryna Khorunzha, Worldwide News Ukraine| The Lithuania Tribune As the fresh Eurostat data was revealed, the world gasped at the gender pay gap persisting in the European Union. Women in Europe Work 59 Days “For Free”, – one can learn from the brochure, published by …
