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.

• Report “State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015” highlights problems of large scale non-citizenship and Roma situation in Latvia
• 9^th World Roma Congress will be held in Riga in August

According to a report of the Minority Rights Group International  “State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015”, large number of non-citizens and situation of Roma are highlighted as the problematic issues in Latvia. The report emphasizes that there are children born with the status of non-citizen in Latviabecause their parents non-citizens do not choose to register them as citizens. The report also says that Roma is the most excluded minority group in Latviasuffering from discrimination in employment and education. Neatkariga

Vesti Segodnya reports that the 9^th World Roma Congress will be held inRiga on 16 August 2015. Roma delegations from 30 countries will arrive toRiga in order to elect the new head of the International Roma Union. There also will be a two-day cultural Roma festival inRiga and Jurmala on 17 and 18 August.