Lithuania

Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:

Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :24 % ⁽¹⁾

Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 4 % ⁽²⁾

Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : 5 % ⁽³⁾

Child Marriage :0 % ⁽⁴⁾

Reports submitted by UN Human Rights Bodies:

Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Gender Equality Indexes:

Gender Inequality Index Rank :30 ⁽⁵⁾

Global Gender Gap Index Rank :11 ⁽⁶⁾

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Working Group: Coordinate to Prevent GBV

Lithuania | 2019

Type of Measure : Institutional mechanisms

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Specialised Assistance Centers for DV Survivors

Lithuania | 2018

Type of Measure : Coordinated and or Integrated service delivery > One-stop centers

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Trainings for Judges: Prevention of Sexual Violence, GBV and Human Trafficking

Lithuania | 2018

Type of Measure : Justice > Training

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

The Social Campaign ‘This is Also Violence’

Lithuania | 2018

Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Women’s Crisis Centres

Lithuania | 2017

Type of Measure : Social services > Shelter/Safe accommodation

Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Project: “Stop Violence Against Women: from Raising Awareness to a Zero-Tolerance to Victim Blaming”.

Lithuania | 2017

Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Allocation of Funds to NGOs for Prevention of Demestic Violence

Lithuania | 2017 | 2020

Type of Measure : Budgets > Government allocation

Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Hotline: Safer Internet Programme to Report on Illegal and Harmful Content

Lithuania | 2017

Type of Measure : Social services > Hotline/Helpline

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Study: “Early Marriages in the Lithuanian Roma Community: Situation Analysis, Conclusions and Recommendations”

Lithuania | 2017

Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Other research and statistical data

Form of Violence : Child, early and forced marriage

Informational Campaign: Sexual Violence

Lithuania | 2017

Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns

Form of Violence : Sexual violence

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⁽¹⁾ Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 18–74 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Source: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014. Violence against Women: An EU-wide Survey. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

⁽²⁾ Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 18–74 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014. Violence against Women: An EU-wide Survey. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

⁽³⁾ Proportion of women aged 18–74 years experiencing sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than an intimate partner at least once in their lifetime. Source: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014. Violence against Women: An EU-wide Survey. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

⁽⁴⁾ Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married or in union before age 18. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.

⁽⁵⁾ The Gender Inequality Index is a composite measure reflecting inequality between women and men in three different dimensions: reproductive health (maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rate), empowerment (share of parliamentary seats held by women and share of population with at least some secondary education), and labour market participation (labour force participation rate). Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2021/2022.

⁽⁶⁾ The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria. Source: World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report 2022.