Latvia

• Annual Reports 185
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Commentaries 2
• Comments on Concluding Observations 2
• Compilations 1
• Concluding Observations 9
• Country News 85
• Country Profiles 2
• Country Reports 90
• Maps 4
• Mission Reports 3
• National Legislation 1
• Query Responses 126
• Regional Reports 5
• Research, Background and Discussion Papers 1
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 1
• States Parties Reports 20
• Statistics 1
• Thematic Reports 4
• UNHCR Country Updates 2

• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• Access to procedures 2
• Airports 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 20
• Armed forces / Military 20
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 5
• Ashkaelian 1
• Asylum policy 7
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 22
• Baptist 11
• Belarusians 1
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 8
• Catholic 11
• Child labour 10
• Child prostitution 14
• Child soldiers 5
• Children's rights 42
• Children-at-risk 23
• Christian 11
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 3
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) 1
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
• Corruption 29
• Criminal justice 17
• Death penalty 5
• Democracy 7
• Denial of refugee status 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 5
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 64
• Domestic violence 8
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 17
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Egyptians 1
• Elections 32
• Emigrants 5
• Equal opportunities 1
• Equality before the law 6
• Evangelical 10
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Extreme poverty 1
• Family reunification 3
• Forced labour 29
• Forced marriage 2
• Foreign occupation 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 48
• Freedom of assembly and association 36
• Freedom of expression 77
• Freedom of information 26
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 44
• Freedom of speech 29
• Gender discrimination 18
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Good governance 13
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Hare Krishna 9
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
• Human Rights Council 3
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 41
• Human rights courts 2
• Human rights monitors 6
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 3
• Immigration Detention 2
• Immigration control after entry 1
• Impunity 6
• Independence of judiciary 18
• Integration 3
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 3
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 9
• Jew 21
• Juvenile justice system 2
• Labour law 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 23
• Livelihoods 1
• Lutheran 11
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
• Methodist 11
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 15
• Military operations 7
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 13
• Minorities 41
• Minority rights 17
• Mormon 6
• Multiple nationality 2
• Muslim 12
• Naturalization 10
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Older persons 1
• Opposition 9
• Orthodox Christian 11
• Pentecostal 10
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 12
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Persons with disabilities 13
• Police 14
• Political parties 13
• Political situation 6
• Pre-trial detention 7
• Prevention of discrimination 2
• Prison or detention conditions 41
• Property restitution 8
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 9
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 32
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 4
• Reception 1
• Referendum 5
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 4
• Refugee seamen 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 24
• Regional instruments 3
• Registration 1
• Religious discrimination 26
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 10
• Right to a nationality 13
• Right to education 4
• Right to employment 8
• Right to health 1
• Right to leave 1
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to return 4
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Right to self-determination 8
• Rights of non-citizens 15
• Roma 12
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• Russians 27
• Safe country of origin 2
• Safe third country 2
• Sale of children 1
• Sami 2
• Scientologist 1
• Security forces 7
• Security situation 3
• Seventh Day Adventist 7
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 26
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Slavs 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 14
• State protection 2
• Statelessness 15
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 12
• Tatars 1
• Temporary protection 2
• Terrorism 15
• Threats / Intimidation 5
• Torture 22
• Trafficking in persons 60
• Ukrainians 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 5
• Unlawful departure 1
• Visas 3
• Witnesses 1
• Women's rights 29
• Women-at-risk 16

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• Amnesty International - Latvia
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Latvia
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC delegation in Brussels
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Latvia
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Latvia
• ReliefWeb - Latvia
• UNHCR - Latvia
• United States Department of State - Latvia
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Latvia