Seminar Roma Youth Participation: What Now? took place in Strasbourg, 2019 September 25–27. The seminar reviewed the Results of the Roma Youth Action Plan (2016–2019) in relation to Roma youth participation and combating antigypsyism. Gražina Sluško, Chief Specialist on Roma Issues, participated in the seminar. The opening ...

On 14 July 2019 Vida Montvydaitė, the director of the Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania together with Sigitas Šliažas, a chief specialist in Relations with National Communities, took part in events to mark the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. Kaunas Jewish Community, Kaunas Municipality and Lithuanian Jews ...

Today we mark the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, which happened on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribentroff pact (otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet pact) that made the Baltic states part of the Soviet Union in 1939. 30 years ago, two million people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined hands and made a 600-kilometre human chain that spread across the three ...

RU.DELFI.LT has started “National Communities at the Roundtable” project supported by the Department of National Minorities. The aim of the project is to tell the stories and highlight particularly sensitive questions related to the national minorities in Lithuania and to form some type of a platform for intercultural dialogue.

Website RU.DELFI.LT starts publishing a series of articles about young people representing Lithuanian national communities. The main actors of these articles shall be young people who are involved in civic and public life and create their personal lives and career in Lithuania. 

The Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter Department) launched competition Best Thesis 2019. Lithuanian and foreign students, who defended their Bachelor, Master or PhD theses in 2018-2019 academic year and assistant professors who published their ...

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) examined 9th and 10th reports of Lithuania of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination during its 98th session in Geneva, 1 May – 30 April 2019.

On 30 April – 1 May 2019 the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered the ninth and tenth periodic reports submitted by Lithuania in accordance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The Department requested the Committee of Human Rights of the Seimas to include the International Roma Genocide Day into the list of remembrance days. Europe commemorates Roma Genocide Remembrance Day on the 2nd of August.

The 13th Bread Festival event took place in the House of National Minorities on the 1st of February 2019. The national minorities in Lithuania - Armenians, Byelorussians, Greeks, Karaites, Kazakhs, Latvians, Moldavians/Romanians, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Germans and Lithuanians – presented their national bread to the audience in a creative way.

The Department of National Minorities allocated partial funding for National Minorities’ Culture and Integration Centres following the recommendations of a Project Evaluation Commission. Overall amount from the State budget was 259 thousand Euros. The funding is to ensure successful project-related activity of the Centres in 2019.

On 29th of January 2019, Vida Montvydaitė, Director of the Department of National Minorities met with H.E. Pekka Metso, Ambassador at Large for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Processes of Finland with the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.