Author: Dovilė PŪRAITĖ-ANDRIKIENĖ
Topic category: Human Rights
In recent years many European countries revised their national institutions of incapacitation in the light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted in 2006 December 13. Although in Lithuania this Convention entered into force in 2010 September 17, the real situation of incapacitated persons so far has not changed, though the State has taken some steps to improve the situation of these persons.