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.

• Cabinet of Ministers has approved the national action plan for integration of Roma in Latvia 2007-2009
• Security Police has stopped the criminal process against five young people detained for making racially insulting statements towards a dark skinned citizen of Canada
• Latvijas Avize prints an article by the leader of the extreme right-wing political party All for Latvia! Raivis Dzintars on the case of Aleksandrs Gilmans

Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the national action plan for integration of Roma in Latvia 2007-2009. As reported, the programme focuses on three main areas: employment, education and human rights.

Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the national action plan for integration of Roma in Latvia 2007-2009. As reported, the programme focuses on three main areas: employment, education and human rights. Diena

The Security Police has stopped the criminal process against five young people who were detained for making racially insulting statements towards a dark skinned citizen of Canada in the centre of Riga in September.  According to the Security Police, there is no evidence approving that the actions of the young people were aimed at incitement to racial or ethnic hatred.

The Security Police has stopped the criminal process against five young people who were detained for making racially insulting statements towards a dark skinned citizen of Canada in the centre of Riga in September. According to the Security Police, there is no evidence approving that the actions of the young people were aimed at incitement to racial or ethnic hatred. Chas

Latvijas Avize prints an article by the leader of the extreme right-wing political party All for Latvia! Raivis Dzintars on the case of Aleksandrs Gilmans. As reported Aleksandrs Gilmans was charged for anti-governmental statements made on the internet forum of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools homepage. Recently the court has justified Aleksandrs Gilmans. Raivis Dzintars believed that Gilmans statements are hostile to Latvia and contain open call for forcible overturn of the state regime. Therefore, Raivis Dzintars claimed that: such persons have not deserved to be citizens of Latvia and have to be expelled from the country.