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• Seminar Muslim Minorities in Europe: Diversity Assetor Vulnerable Minorities?
• Saeima faction FF/LNIM has prepared draft amendments to the Criminal Code

On 24 March, the Latvian Centre for Human Rights with the financial support of the Embassy of Canada in Riga held a seminar “Muslim Minorities in Europe: Diversity Asset or Vulnerable Minorities?

On 24 March, the Latvian Centre for Human Rights with the financial support of the Embassy of Canada in Riga held a seminar Muslim Minorities in Europe:Diversity Assetor Vulnerable Minorities?. The experts from Canada, Denmark, and France took part in the seminar. The Director of the LCHR Ilze Brands-Kehris stated that Islam is the second largest religion in the world, however, the hate and intolerance towards Muslims have grown up during the last years. The Ambassador of Canada to Latvia Claire Poulain called the intolerance and discrimination of other religions as the biggest challenge of this century: in the global world in which we live now it is impossible to think that we are alone and that our seeing of life is the only one. Chas

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The parliamentary faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM has prepared draft amendments to the Criminal Code. FF/LNIM proposes to punish persons who take the naturalisation exams instead of persons who actually must take the exams. As reported, there have been several cases when the Naturalisation Board denied granting Latvian citizenship to the persons who asked other persons to sit their Latvian language test. Chas, Vesti Segodnya