Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius - Members of the Seimas

Freedom Party Political Group

Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius

Seimas 2020-2024

Member of the Seimas from 11/13/2020

Nominated by: Laisvės partija

Elected: By list

Contacts

Room: III-501

Tel: +370 5 239 6677

E-mail: [email protected]

Personal Homepage

Advisers and assistants

Position

Biography

Activities

Press releases

Reports

Conference of Chairs

11/20/2021

Conference of Chairs, Member

Committees of the Seimas

11/19/2020

Committee on Human Rights, Chair

Commissions of the Seimas

11/24/2020

Commission for Suicide and Violence Prevention, Member

Political groups of the Seimas

11/17/2020	Freedom Party Political Group, Deputy Chair
11/13/2020 - 11/16/2020	Freedom Party Political Group, Deputy Chair

Parliamentary groups

12/03/2020	Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Canada, Member
12/03/2020	Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Ireland, Member
03/24/2021	Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Member
12/03/2020	Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Member
12/03/2020	Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America, Member
11/17/2020	Parliamentary Group for Development Cooperation and Reproductive Health and Rights, Member
12/08/2020	Parliamentary Group for Relations with Hong Kong (People’s Republic of China), Member
12/10/2020	Parliamentary Group for Relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), Member
05/11/2022	Provisional Group for Cooperation with the Lithuanian Youth Council, Member
05/20/2022	Provisional Group for Relations with Lithuanian Jewish Expatriates (Litvaks), Member
12/23/2020	Provisional Group "For the Family", Member
02/15/2021	Provisional Group of Friends of the Capital City, Member
11/19/2020	Provisional Group of Women, Member

Date of birth	6 January 1989
Place of birth	Kaunas, Lithuania

Education
2012	Human Rights Law, Central European University
2011	Political Science, Vilnius University
2007	Kauno Technologijos Universiteto gimnazija (upper secondary school of Kaunas University of Technology)

Work experience
2018–2020	Head of Division, Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson
2015–2018	Lawyer/ Public policy coordinator, Lithuanian Gay League
2014	Event coordinator, Brooklyn Community Pride Centre, New York, USA
2012–2013	Project Manager, Lithuanian Gay League

Political career
	Member, Freedom Party
Since 2019	Member, Board, Freedom Party
2019–2020	Member, Vilnius City Municipal Council
2016–2018	Member, Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania

Miscellaneous
Actively engaged in LGBT movement in Lithuania; one of the key organisers of the Baltic Pride march Už lygybę! (For Equality) in 2013 and 2016. Initiator of strategic proceedings in 2017 following which personal identification documents for transgender people are changed without any compulsory medical procedures. Highly experienced in the area of prevention of hate crimes as he represented applicants in the case of Beizaras and Levickas v. Lithuania brought before the European Court of Human Rights regarding hate speech on the Facebook social media platform. Winner of the National Equality and Diversity Award 2018 for his contribution to the protection of human rights of LGBT people. Elected to Vilnius City Municipal Council in 2019 as the first ‘professional gay’ in self-governance.
Hobbies: theatre, sport, literature, popular queer culture
Languages: English

Family
Son Natanas Tomas

Drafts tabled

Business trips

2023.04.02 - 2023.04.06	Dėl Seimo valdybos 2023 m. kovo 15 d. sprendimo Nr. SV-S-858 „Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus ir Rimantės Šalaševičiūtės dalyvavimo mokomajame vizite socialinės apsaugos ir darbo klausimais“ pakeitimo (Armėnijos Respublika)
2023.04.02 - 2023.04.06	Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus ir Rimantės Šalaševičiūtės dalyvavimo mokomajame vizite socialinės apsaugos ir darbo klausimais (Armėnijos Respublika)
2022.09.16 - 2022.09.23	Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus dalyvavimo pažintiniame ir edukaciniame renginyje antisemitinių neapykantos nusikaltimų ir neapykantos kalbos prevencijos klausimais (Izraelio Valstybė)
2022.09.16 - 2022.09.23	Dėl Seimo valdybos 2022 m. liepos 12 d. sprendimo Nr. SV-S-606 „Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus dalyvavimo pažintiniame ir edukaciniame renginyje antisemitinių neapykantos nusikaltimų ir neapykantos kal (Izraelio Valstybė)
2022.07.19 - 2022.07.22	Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus dalyvavimo Europos liberalų forumo ir Friedricho Naumano fondo rengiamame seminare migrantų klausimais (Ispanijos Karalystė)
2022.02.27 - 2022.02.28	Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus dalyvavimo konferencijoje LGBTI teisių Europos Sąjungoje klausimais (Belgijos Karalystė)
2021.08.17 - 2021.08.22	Dėl Tomo Vytauto Raskevičiaus dalyvavimo tarpparlamentinėje plenarinėje sesijoje ir konferencijoje žmogaus teisių klausimais (Danijos Karalystė)