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.

• Initiative “For United, Inclusive and Tolerant Society in Latvia” published on a social initiative platform manabalss.lv
• Security Police proposes to amend legal regulation on dissemination of war propaganda

Latvijas Avize reports about a new initiative published on a social initiative platform manabalss.lv called “For United, Inclusive and Tolerant Society in Latvia.” The initiative includes summary of proposals made at a forum of Latvian ethnic minorities conducted on 14 November by the Ministry of Culture, its Advisory Committee of Ethnic Minority NGOs, and Latvian Community Initiative Foundation. Forum participants proposed:  to strengthen inclusion of representatives of all ethnicities in local communities by supporting events where alongside the state language also other languages could be used as working languages; to support projects of ethnic minority NGOs helping to preserve uniqueness of every culture; to promote new effective participation forms, especially on the Internet; to promote interaction of young people of different ethnic origins; to ensure learning of state language and ethnic minority languages; to preserve rights of ethnic minority students to pass centralised examination in their native language; to prevent closure of ethnic minority schools and to preserve minority education programs; to increase number of programmes in minority languages in local media; etc.  Authors of the initiative want these and other proposals to be included in the government’s actions plan and other corresponding policy documents.

The Security Police (SP) proposes to amend legal regulation on distribution of war propaganda. The SP considers that the war propaganda promotes radicalisation of specific persons who go to the war-torn regions with an aim to take part in the military actions and become members of terrorist or criminal organisations. The SP proposes to include in the Criminal Law liability for illegal participation in military conflicts. Vesti Segodnya