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The project aims: a) to strengthen the monitoring of human rights situation in Lithuania by proposing to policy and decision makers’ public policy solutions that are in line with international human rights standards; b) to mobilize public support for these solutions and build public resilience towards undemocratic and human rights'' restricting initiatives. The project also aims to change the attitudes towards vulnerable groups among the specialists encountering people from vulnerable groups in their work and journalist reporting on these groups, by engaging them into awareness raising activities and including in these activities representatives from vulnerable groups.
The impact of the project will be complex and will encompass several target areas and target groups: a) regular monitoring of the general human rights and civil liberties'' situation in Lithuania, and providing relevant information to international human rights bodies; b) regular monitoring of the legislative process and submitting legal and policy proposals to national policy and decision makers; c) awareness raising and educational events for specialists and journalists, aimed at reducing bias towards vulnerable groups; d) meetings with youth in 10 regions on gender-based violence, with a purpose to engage the youth and enable them to recognize various forms of gender-based violence; e) advocacy and awareness raising campaigns, that would engage the public at large into the discussion on human rights issues, and would mobilize public support to policy solutions respectful of human rights.
It is expected that after the implementation of the project, the observance of international human rights standards in Lithuania will be strengthened, the awareness of the needs of vulnerable communities will be raised among specialists and journalists, and youth in the regions will be better able to recognize gender-based violence and find ways of responding to it.