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<p>ILGA-Europe will closely follow tomorrow’s plenary session in the European Parliament, where proposed homophobic legislative amendments in Lithuania will be discussed. </p><p>Read more about the developments in Lithuania and how you can follow the debate.</p>

<p>Lithuania is in the spotlight of the European Parliament again as legislative amendments has been tabled in the Autumn of 2010, and is now up for discussion in the Lithuanian Parliament. The proposed amendments will give authority to prosecute on an extremely wide variety of actions and activities, such as…</p>
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<li>campaigning on human rights issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, </li>

<li>providing sexual health information to LGBT people or the organisation of gay film festivals, </li>

<li>organising and/or attending Pride events. </li>

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<p><a href="http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/lithuania/lithuanian_parliament_ready_to_adopt_anti_gay_law_proposals_till_the_end_of_the_year" target="_self">Read the media release about the legislative amendments and the consequences from Lithuanian Gay League here.</a></p><p>The legislative amendments are coming after the introduction of the homophobic <i>Law on the protection of minors against the detrimental effect of public information</i> in March 2010<i>.</i> <a href="http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/lithuania/lithuania_and_the_law_against_propaganda_of_homosexuality_and_bisexuality" target="_self">Read more here.</a></p><p>However it is not only the European Parliament that is concerned about the continuously homophobic legal situation in Lithuania. In November 2010, Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania, commented on the proposal which is going to be debated in the Lithuanian parliament: “<i>We cannot violate human rights. Criminalisation of such aspects is not allowed</i>.” <a href="http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/lithuania/lithuanian_president_criticises_proposal_to_criminalise_public_promotion_of_homosexual_relationships" target="_self">Read more hear about the reaction from the Lithuanian president</a>.</p><p>Tomorrow Members of the European Parliament will ask questions to the European Commission and followed by a debate between the two European Union institutions. The session has been scheduled to take place as the last item on the agenda for <b>Tuesday 18 January between 21.00 and 24.00</b>.</p><p>You can already read the oral questions from <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=OQ&amp;reference=O-2010-0190&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">ALDE</a>, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=OQ&amp;reference=O-2010-0204&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">the Greens</a>, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=OQ&amp;reference=O-2010-0216&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">S&amp;D</a> and <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=OQ&amp;reference=O-2010-0207&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">GUE </a>to the European Commission online.</p><p>
The debate is likely to be rounded up by a vote on two motions for resolutions: one tabled jointly by the four party groups in the European Parliament, ALDE, Greens, S&amp;D and GUE, and one tabled by the conservative party group, EPP. These votes will take place on <b>Wednesday 19 January between 12.30 and 13.30</b>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&amp;reference=B7-2011-0031&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">Read the motion from ALDE, Greens, S&amp;D and GUE</a><br />
<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&amp;reference=B7-2011-0033&amp;language=EN" target="_blank">Read the motion from EPP here</a><br />***</p><p><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/video.do" target="_blank">Moreover you can watch the entire debate and voting live here</a>.</p>

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