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.
Сен. 9, 2006
- Conference Cultural Autonomy for National Minorities: Experience and Perspectives"
- Somalians find a new place of residency
The representatives of Russian communities from 20 European countries took part in a conference Cultural Autonomy for National Minorities: Experience and Perspectives held by the European Russian Alliance on 11 September in Riga. The main theme of the conference was a situation of Russian communities in the Baltic States after the ratification of the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities. Chas
Latvijas Avize reports that the seven Somalians, who recently have been granted the alternative status in Latvia, have moved to a new place of residency because of the owner of the real estate Veczvannenieki, rented by an NGO that accommodated the Somalians there, claimed that the NGO has breached the rent agreement by accommodating the Somalians and demanded to evict them from his real estate.