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• Law on the Rehabilitation of Persons Repressed for Resistance to the Occupying Regime
• Law on the Amendment and Supplement to the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania
• Law on the State Language
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• Law on Compulsory (Alternative) Labour Service
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• Law on the Protection of Immovable Cultural Properties
• Law on the Protection of Moveable Cultural Properties in the the Republic of Lithuania
• Law on the Seimas Ombudsman
• Law on the Employment of the Population
• Law on the Validity of the Republic of Lithuania Citizenship Documents and on the  supplement to the Republic of Lithuania Law on Citizenship
• Law on Citizenship (2)
• Law on Immigration
• Supreme Soviet Law of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic: Law on Ethnic Minorities
• Supreme Soviet Law of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic: Law on Citizenship
• Supreme Soviet Law of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic: Law on the Fundamentals of Local Government
• Law on International Treaties of the Republic of Lithuania
• Law on Refugee Status in the Republic of Lithuania

Organisations 

• Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights
• Lithuanian Human Rights Association 
• Open Society Fund, Lithuania
• UNDP Lithuania
• NGO Index at Lithuania Online

Reports 

International Helsinki Federation

• Annual Report 1998
• Annual Report 1997

Amnesty International reports on Lithuania

• Annual Report 2000
• Annual Report 1997

• 1999
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EU - from the Regular Report on Lithuania's Progress Towards Accession, 1999

The Government continues to finance programmes promoting economic, social and cultural development of Lithuania’s ethnic communities.

Issues recently raised by Polish community in Lithuania (related to administrative-territorial reform, restitution of property in the Vilnius region, official spelling of Polish names, and retention of compulsory graduation examination of the Polish language in Polish schools) are being settled, notably  through the bilateral Commission for Ethnic Minority Affairs under the auspices of Lithuanian-Polish Governmental Co-operation Council.

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