Lithuania Updates

A. Context Since the onset of the international armed conflict between Ukraine and Russian Federation in February 2022, Lithuania has received over 90,000 people displaced from Ukraine, placing...

From 1-3 February, very low temperatures, heavy snowfall and strong winds have affected Lithuania, resulting in casualties and traffic disruptions. Media, as of 3 February report three deaths in...

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IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) collected data through Surveys with Refugees in the Ukraine Response region from August to October 2024, conducting interviews with a total of 561 individuals...

Reacting to a vote Lithuanian parliament to withdraw from the Ottawa convention, a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines, Esther Major, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director...

The IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix collected data through Surveys with refugees in the Ukraine Response region from August to October 2024, conducting interviews with a total of 561 individuals...

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Ginebra, 6 de marzo de 2025 – El CICR lamenta profundamente el retiro de Lituania de la Convención sobre Municiones en Racimo, efectivo a partir de hoy. Es una decisión sin precedentes que debilita...

The International Committee of the Red Cross deeply regrets Lithuania’s unprecedented withdrawal from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, effective 6 March 2025. In conflict zones, cluster munitions...

Tamar Gabelnick, Director, International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition On March 6, 2025, Lithuania will formally withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, an...

The 2024 Socio-Economic Insights Survey (SEIS) in Lithuania, conducted under the Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Ukraine Situation, provides a detailed analysis of the socio-economic...

Lithuania maintains a favourable protection environment for forcibly displaced and stateless people, and successfully leads in Europe on labour market inclusion of refugees from Ukraine, as part of...

KEY FIGURES • Around 90,000 applications for temporary protection by refugees from Ukraine since February 2022. • Current estimated presence: 45,000 individuals.* • 117 individuals granted refugee...

Operational context Since the outset of the war in Ukraine in early 2022, the Lithuanian Government and civil society have responded with steadfast solidarity towards refugees from Ukraine, including...

Context As of 1 April 2024, Lithuania had registered 85,000 refugees from Ukraine for temporary protection, constituting 3% of the country’s population. Most refugees arrived in the first half of...

As part of its collaboration with the Global Detention Project-sponsored Global Immigration Detention Observatory initiative, the Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute, issued an...

Since February 2024, 88,000 refugees from Ukraine have been cumulatively registered for temporary protection (TP) in Lithuania. As of mid-year 2024, 43,800 remained actively registered with TP...

Mary Wareham Deputy Director, Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division marywareham It is extremely rare for countries to walk away from longstanding commitments under International Humanitarian Law (IHL),...

Reacting to the Lithuanian parliament’s decision to withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Research in Europe,...