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Dovile Juodkaite

Speaker
Lithuania

Dovilė Juodkaitė – lawyer, since 2002 actively working in Lithuania and on international scale, focusing on human rights and disability.

Provide input in various international desk researches, studies and interviews on the implementation of UNCRPD.  Provide qualification training cources for judges in Lithuania,  introducing new human rights (of persons with disabilities, mental health patients) principals according to UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (including issues of legal capacity, access to justice, etc.)

Since 2017 National expert for WHO QualityRights Assessment Team at World Health Organization for human rights monitoring in social and medical closed type institutions (social care homes, psychiatric hospitals, etc.). Provide trainings on WHO QualityRights toolkit and monitoring of human rights on international scale.From 2014 – now, Faculty member at the International Diploma on Mental Health Law and human rights, Indian Law Society in collaboration with World Health Organisation.