Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Neatkariga prints an article about problems of integration of refuges and persons with alternative status in Latvia
• Citizens of Non-existent State issued by the Latvian Human Rights Committee
• Official results: 187,378 signatures were collected in support of granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia

Neatkariga prints an article about problems of integration of refugees and persons with alternative status in Latvia. Newspaper interviews an Afghani woman who received alternative status in Latvia. The woman and her little child have no permanent place of residence, no job and no means for living because the time when the state granted her benefit ended. According to the head of an NGO Shelter. Safe House Sandra Zalcmane, there is no integration policy of refugees and persons granted alternative status in Latvia. There are no language courses and adaptation system which could help such people to adjust to residence in the country. Mrs Zalcmane states that the state put all the responsibility for this issue on short projects mostly funded by the European Refugee Fund and some NGOs.

The Latvian Human Rights Committee presented its study Citizens of Non-existent State about Latvian non-citizens. The study gives overview about large scale non-citizenship in Latvia, provides statistical and historical analyses of situation non-citizens. The study also gives a selection of international recommendation on rights of non-citizens and highlights the list of 80 differences in the rights of citizens and Latvian non-citizens. Vesti Segodnya

According to the official results of the Central Election Committee (CEC), 187,378 signatures were collected during the state funded collection of signatures in support of the Constitutional amendments stipulating granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia. The CEC forwarded the amendments to the President of Latvia and the President forwarded those to the Saeima. As reported, most likely the Parliament will turn down the amendments and the national referendum will be initiated. More than a half of citizens who have right to vote (i.e. more than 770,000) must support the amendments at the referendum in order for the amendments to be approved. Telegraf, Latvijas Avize, Diena, Vesti Segodnya