The leaflet provides information how to apply for asylum in Latvia, what happens during the asylum procedure, where you can go for help.The leaflet is issued in the framework of the UNHCR project "Border Monitoring and Legal Counceling for Asylum Seekers in Latvia"
This tool has been developed by Harm Reduction International, in consultation with an Expert Committee, to assist human rights-based monitoring bodies in fulfilling their preventive mandate in the context of HIV, HCV, TB and harmreduction in prisons.
This report forms part of the EU co-funded project “Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening Infectious Disease Monitoring” implemented under the lead of Harm Reduction International in 2015 and 2016. The project aims to reduce ill-treatment of persons in detention and improve prison conditions through improved and standardised monitoring and inspection mechanismson HIV, HCV and TB.
LCHR sent to the UN Human Rights Council its submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) June, 2015