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Human Rights in Latvia in 1999

Human Rights in Latvia in 1999

In Latvia the primary human rights concerns in 1999 were the lengthy pre-trial detention of minors, encroachments on freedom of expression, as well as the government's failure to allocate sufficient funding to ensure smooth implementation of social integration policy, thereby threatening recent progress in the realm of minority rights.

Published : 2004-01-12 Read more...

Human Rights in Latvia in 1998

In Latvia the primary human rights concerns in 1998 were conditions in closed institutions, particulary the outbreak of a tuberculosis epidemic in the prison system, the emergence of a management crisis in the National Human Rights Office, and the appearance of new extremist groupings inciting racial hatred and propagating anti-Semitism.

Published : 2004-01-10 Read more...