A paper by the staff lawyer of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies Ilvija Puce on immigration policy in Latvia. The particular attention is paid to the legal norms of the detention of illegal imigrants and the rights of detainees in Latvia.
On 15 February 2005 the LCHRES will organise a seminar in the series of seminars on discrimination prevention ‘Prevention of Discrimination in Europe and Latvia: Theory and Practice’ in Ventspils, at the premises of the University of Ventspils.
On 9 September 2004 the LCHRES in co-operation with the Liepaja Centre of NGOs organised the first seminar in the series of seminars on discrimination prevention ‘Prevention of Discrimination in Europe and Latvia: Theory and Practice’ in Liepaja, hotel ‘Amrita’.
On August 23, 2004 the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies and the Information Office of the Council of Europe with a financial support provided by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the French Embassy to Latvia organised a seminar ‘Plurilinguism in Teaching in the European Context.’
Seminar is organized within the framework of the 3-year project 'Strengthening anti-discrimination capacity' financed by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands (MATRA programme) and realised by the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies in cooperation with the Netherlands Helsinki Committee.