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On Tuesday, after the presentation, the parliamentarians rejected the amendments to the Statute, which it proposed, to include gender equality, non-discrimination and equal opportunities, private and family life, thought, in the Human Rights Committee. religion, freedom of conscience and expression, among others.
46 members of the Seimas voted in favor of the amendments, 36 against and 32 deputies abstained. The project was not definitively rejected, but was returned to the initiators for improvement.
The chairman of the Seimas Human Rights Committee, TV Raskevičius, said that the proposed activities would reflect the actual activities of the committee that is already underway. However, critics of the project said they did not support the amendments to the Charter, as their approval would duplicate the work of this committee with other committees.
Conservative member Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė believes that if the Human Rights Committee took a disproportionate number of issues into its own hands, the quality of legal acts would decline.
She suggested not approving the “poorly prepared bill,” asking for a reading by the Legal Department.
“I don’t like that the Freedom Party constantly discards some ideas that are completely inappropriate, it becomes a system. (…) We are the Seimas, not a kindergarten ”, remarked the former politician.
Meanwhile, according to another conservative, first vice president of the Seimas Jurgis Razma, the project is “legally literate.”
The amendments to the Statute of the Seimas propose to list certain areas of activity of the Human Rights Committee.
“In our opinion, this denomination is inconsistent, since the common list of areas related to the protection of human rights and freedoms mentions not only certain groups of rights and freedoms, but also specific human rights and freedoms (for example, many specific rights and freedoms). Freedoms are listed, covered by the category of civil rights), as well as a specific aspect of human rights and freedoms (gender equality) that fall within the scope of the concept of “non-discrimination and equality of opportunities. “We suggest abandoning the aforementioned duplication and naming of human rights and specific freedoms when defining the areas of activity of the committee, especially since they could not yet be listed in detail,” says the conclusion of the Legal Department of the Foreign Ministry of the Seimas.
The Seimas Human Rights Committee would like to consider and present proposals on the formation of the state policy on human rights and freedoms. This committee, as proposed, would prepare and consider bills and other legal acts and proposals “on life, liberty and the dignity of the person, civil and political rights, the rights of the child, gender equality, rights of persons with disabilities, national minorities, Lithuanians in the world, non-discrimination and equal opportunities, private and family life, freedom of thought, religion, conscience and expression, private property and consumer rights, personal data, right to disseminate and receive information and other areas related to the protection of human rights and freedoms “.
The Statute of the Seimas also proposed that the Seimas Human Rights Committee, if necessary, prepare a draft resolution of censorship of the Seimas ombudsman and other officials appointed by the Seimas to guarantee the protection of human rights and freedoms and the present to the Seimas. For consideration.
The Seimas Human Rights Committee also wanted to exercise parliamentary control over the institutions dealing with human rights and freedoms, with the exception of the courts.
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