Lithuania
The GALE Right to Education Monitor still has to be done in Lithuania.
Interested to become a reporter? Contact info@lgbt-education.info.
Score on the GALE Checklist
| Item | Forbidden | Discouraged | No policy | Encouraged | Supported | No data | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Full access to schools? | x | no comments | |||||
| 2. Freedom of self expression? | x | no comments | |||||
| 3. Protection against bullying? | x | no comments | |||||
| 4. No drop-out? | x | yes they drop out, teachers bad marks or suicide | |||||
| 5. Equal performance? | x | no comments | |||||
| 6. Is there public information? | x | no comments | |||||
| 7. Attention in school resources? | x | no comments | |||||
| 8. Resources for LGBT students? | x | no comments | |||||
| 9. Support services open to LGBT? | x | no comments | |||||
| 10. Peer-learning opportunities? | x | no comments | |||||
| 11. Is staff supportive? | x | no comments | |||||
| 12. Is staff competent to teach? | x | no comments | |||||
| 13. Is staff competent to support? | x | no comments | |||||
| 14. Supportive school environment? | x | no comments | |||||
| 15. Employment protection for staff? | x | no comments |
The score is 63% forbidden (denying), 38% discouraged or no policy (ambiguous) and 0% encouraged or supportive (supportive). We score this country therefore as denying.
This report is based on one respondent, who completed the checklist in august 2013.
Relevant Conventions
| Convention against Discrimination in Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on Technical and Vocational Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Links to interesting articles
- |[Lithuanian Parliament Adopts Family Law: No to Same-Sex Families http://www.lgl.lt/en/?p=18589] (October 20, 2017)
- LGBT* Students Speak out about their Experiences in Lithuanian High Schools (September 12, 2017)
- Lithuanian censors find fairy tales about tolerance harmful to children (May 2014)
- UPR - Lithuania accepts a range of SOGI recommendations (October 2011)
- MEPs welcome Lithuanias new progressive law on advertising (June 2011).
- From ban to protection: sexual orientation discrimination prohibited in ads (July 2011).
- Lithuanian Parliament to "improve" the ban of "gay propaganda" (April 2011).
- European Parliament urges Lithuania to reject proposed homophobic law (January 2011).
- The Global Gay Rights Battlefields (Article on a homophobic church and media although homosexuality isn't a crime in Lithuania, by Max Strasser in foreignpolicy.com, December 2010).
- MP Petras Grazulis introduced an amendment that would impose an administrative fine for the public promotion of homosexual relations. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) believes that such a law would violate the Lithuania¹s obligations under international law to protect the rights of all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, to be free from discrimination and to freedom of expression. (October 2010) See ICJ report.
- Lithuanian parliament protects anti-gay MPs from prosecution (October 2010).
- Action alert Amnesty International to further legislative amendments to criminalize positive attention to LGBT issues in Lithuania (September 2009).
- Compromise version of censorship law adopted in Lithuanian parliament (December 2009).
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This page was last updated on September 17 2013.