Integration monitor

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.

Jan. 17, 2011

  • Latvian human rights NGOs will give the UN their own reports on human rights situation in Latvia
  • NGO Saeima of Latgale will unite all persons interested in preservation of Latgalian language

Telegraf reports that Latvias human rights NGOs will also submit to the United Nations Organisation their reports on human rights situation in Latvia. As reported, human rights report submitted to the UN by the government is mostly positive.

Chas reports about the initiative to establish NGO Saeima of Latgale in January 2011. The NGO would unite all persons interested in preservation of Latgalian culture. One of the activists for Latgalian language in interview with newspaper states that it is very important to define Latgalian as a language and not as a dialect of Latvian language because if it continues to be considered as dialect it will be too difficult to preserve it. The interviewee also highlighted confusion following the proposal of the Union of Regional and Minority Languages to include Latgalian to the list of possible answers to the question What is your native language? in the upcoming population census. Instead, the census working group developed a complicated wording do you consider your native language Latvian as well as its dialects (Latgalian language and others)? According to the interview, during the Pilot Population Census conducted recently, 13% of the participants did not understand this question, while 22% claimed Latgalian as their native language.

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