UK-Lithuania joint declaration on bilateral cooperation 2022 - GOV.UK 05/08/2022, 19:14 concern vis-à-vis China’s support for Russia’s revisionist ambitions on European security architecture as laid out in the China-Russia joint statement “On International Relations Entering New Era”, especially in view of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. We expect China, in line with the UN Charter and basic norms of international law, to support the sovereignty, independence and integrity of Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders and to urge Russia to stop its military aggression against Ukraine. 8. We will increase cooperation aimed at promoting and protecting human rights in the physical and online worlds. In particular, we will cooperate to protect human rights defenders and put an end to arbitrary detention. We condemn reprisals against those cooperating with the UN human rights system. We will fight impunity for human rights violations and abuses and will work to bring perpetrators to justice. We will together protect freedom of expression and, as its essential components, the freedom of the media and the safety of journalists. We recognize the global threat of online harms, and will collaborate to tackle the shared challenge of keeping individuals, especially children, safer online through sharing information and best practice on our approaches. 9. Lithuania and the United Kingdom will cooperate to promote gender equality and advocate for the rights of women and girls, including the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health. We will work to tackle all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, with a view to also raising awareness of the extent of sexual violence in conflict and rallying global action to end it. We will protect the rights of the child, as well as the rights of persons with disabilities, and members of marginalized and disadvantaged groups, including LGBT+ community, as well as ethnic, linguistic, and religious and other minorities. 10. We commit to contribute together to the efforts to modernise and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Human Rights Council to enable it to address existing and emerging human rights challenges. We will together oppose narratives which challenge the universality and indivisibility of human rights and dilute the essence and importance of human https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-lithuania-joint-declar…n-2022/uk-lithuania-joint-declaration-on-bilateral-cooperation-2022 Page 6 of 13