Riga, 1999
Authors: Nils Muiznieks, Angelita Kamenska, Ieva Leimane, Sandra Garsvane
Funding: EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award, received in May 1998

Introduction

In Latvia the primary human rights concerns in 1998 were conditions in closed institutions, particulary the outbreak of a tuberculosis epidemic in the prison system, the emergence of a management crisis in the National Human Rights Office, and the appearance of new extremist groupings inciting racial hatred and propagating anti-Semitism.

Positive developments were liberalisation of the Law on Citizenship, the adoption of inclusive amendments to the law on the status of non-citizens and the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

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