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.

Integration and Minority Information Service

Integration and Minority Information Service
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

• Article about bilingual education

• LA interviews French Ambassador to Latvia Michel Foucher
• Report on the education reform in Latvia.

Liesma Ose is a project co-ordinator at the Soros Foundation in Latvia. She provides information on the practice and experience of an NGO in implementing the reform. The project “Open School” was launched in 1999 within the Soros Foundation programme framework. The goal of the project was fostering contacts amongst Latvian and Russian and other minority schools and kindergartens. The author accounts for the activities conducted and their effects on students and teachers. Liesma Ose concludes that the project offers the model of an open education policy implementation, which works through communication and listening.

Liesma Ose is a project co-ordinator at the Soros Foundation in Latvia. She provides information on the practice and experience of an NGO in implementing the reform. The project Open School was launched in 1999 within the Soros Foundation programme framework. The goal of the project was fostering contacts amongst Latvian and Russian and other minority schools and kindergartens. The author accounts for the activities conducted and their effects on students and teachers. Liesma Ose concludes that the project offers the model of an open education policy implementation, which works through communication and listening.

Lauku Avize

interviews French Ambassador to Latvia Michel Foucher. When asked about the stance of France regarding the ratification of the Framework Convention, which France has not signed nor ratified, Ambassador Michel Foucher states that France does not consider that there are national minorities in the country and that the Convention contradicts the French Constitution. When asked about the stance of France regarding the ratification of the Framework Convention, which France has not signed nor ratified, Ambassador Michel Foucher states that France does not consider that there are national minorities in the country and that the Convention contradicts the French Constitution. LCHRES publishes

LCHRES publishes a report on the education reform in 2004.