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.

• Anti-discrimination campaign launched by the Society Integration Foundation
• Diena:  many aggressive comments on internet portal www.diena.lv come from users located in European institutions

Latvijas Avize reports about an anti-discrimination campaign launched by the Society Integration Foundation. One of the key elements of the campaign are posters with different pictures of little children accompanied with titles that due to different reasons they might be subjected to discrimination in future. According to the Ombudsman’s Office, from August 2013 to this day, legal equality department has received 73 complaints and initiated 22 verification cases. Five of these cases concern discrimination on the grounds of racial and ethnic belonging, six cases concern discriminating attitude towards pregnant women and mothers with little children, four cases about discrimination on the grounds of disability, six cases about violation of the principle of legal equality. The State Labour Inspection, in its turn, in 2013, punished a number of employers who set gender or age limits for potential employees in job advertisements.

Diena prints an article about its monitoring of aggressive comments on internet portal www.diena.lv checking IP addresses of users who published these comments. The monitoring showed that many offensive comments using uncensored vocabulary comes from IP addresses registered for the Council of the European Union and the European Commission’s houses in Brussels and Luxemburg. Many rude comments published under news articles about social economic issues topical for Latvia come from Latvians living outside Latvia. Users taking part in the recent discussions about situation in Ukraine come also from Russia and United States of America and often, using rude words and racist or hateful content, thus raising confrontation. Three years ago the same monitoring showed that the many aggressive comments were published by authors located in the Ministry of Interior, Bank of Latvia, and Central Statistics Board.