For a second year in a row, the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office has contributed to the organisation of the National Forum on Human Rights to celebrate International Human Rights Day. In 2019, the event in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child gathered a large group of human rights activists, scientists, diplomats, ombudsmen, schoolchildren and students, business representatives, public servants, and politicians. During the National Human Rights Forum, the Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office and the Human Rights Monitoring institute joined forces to touch on the particularly relevant topic and answer the question ‘Are Lithuanian prisons capable of achieving the goals of punishment?’ Gintautas Sakalauskas, the Head of the Criminalists’ Association of Lithuania, Virginijus Kulikauskas, the Director of the Prisons Department, and Raimonda Čižauskaitė, the Head of the Consulting Centre for the Convicted of Vilnius Archdiocese Caritas, also shared their views. Discussions of the National Forum on Human Rights were attended by representatives of