Roma community to present study on recognizing hate speech
Friday 23rd October 2026 on 05:15 in
Lithuania
The Roma community will present research on recognizing hate speech and hate crimes in ethnic minority communities at a conference in Vilnius on Friday, LRT reported.
The conference, titled “Preventing hate speech: community experiences and policy directions,” will take place at the Seimas Visitor Centre. It will also discuss the study’s main findings and recommendations, and ways to improve discrimination prevention and human rights protection, the Lithuanian Roma Community said.
The research included representatives of Roma, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Greek, Romanian and Moldovan communities. Representatives of non-governmental organizations, state institutions, ethnic groups and national minority communities are expected to attend the event.
Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson Birutė Sabatauskaitė will speak at the conference, which will also present the experiences of Roma women in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
According to 2021 figures, 2,251 Roma people lived in Lithuania. Nearly a quarter of the country’s Roma population lives in Vilnius.