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.

• Sestdiena writes about a citizen of Afghanistan, who received an alternative status in Latvia after fleeing his country as a juvenile

Weekly magazine

Weekly magazine Sestdiena published an article about a citizen of Afghanistan, who received an alternative status in Latvia after fleeing his country as a juvenile because his family was killed in interethnic clashes. According to Dzena Andersone, the lawyer of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights who assisted his case through the Latvian courts, the state does not provide adequate support for the persons with alternative status, for example, his is not eligible for free-of-charge language courses, social payments or state-paid health care.