Dr. Erika Leonaitė yesterday was appointed as Seimas Ombudsman by Seimas of Republic of Lithuania. Congratuliations to the lecturer of Department of Public Law at VU Faculty of Law!
This institution performs monitoring of human rights; advices to authorities on human rights issues; organizes education and information of the public on human rights, dissemination of information on human rights; presents the assessment of the human rights situation at international organisations; prepares of reports on human rights; seeks harmonisation of national legislation regulations and practices with the international human rights instruments.