Venezuela >> Lithuania, Recommendation, 40th Session, January 2022

Noted. According to official data from pre-trial investigations, there is no evidence of any alarming increase in trafficking in human beings, for sexual and labour exploitation, forced labour or widespread pornography in Lithuania. On the contrary, the Lithuanian authorities as well as non-governmental and international organisations, providing assistance to victims of trafficking in human beings, are actively and consistently combating the phenomenon of human trafficking. Since 2016, the Government has set up an inter-institutional Commission for the Coordination of the Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings to coordinate the measures and actions of state and municipal institutions and bodies in the field of the fight against human trafficking. Lithuania therefore does not support the recommendation but the country will continue to step up its efforts to combat various forms of trafficking in human beings.