Latvian Human Rights Committee


Latvian Human Rights Committee is a human rights non-governmental organization in Latvia. It is member of international human rights and anti-racism NGOs FIDH, AEDH. Co-chairpersons of LHRC are Vladimirs Buzajevs and Natalija Jolkina. According to the authors of the study "Ethnopolitics in Latvia", former CBSS Commissioner on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Ole Espersen "had visited LHRC various times and had used mostly the data of that organisation in his views on Latvia".

History

In 1992, LHRC was founded by a group of people co-operating since 1990, led by Tatjana Ždanoka and Vladimirs Bogdanovs. In 1995, LHRC has joined FIDH and was registered by Latvian authorities.
Since 1994, LHRC periodically publishes an updated list of differences in rights between citizens and non-citizens of Latvia. Since 1997, LHRC supports UNITED for Intercultural Action. In 2007, LHRC has joined ENAR and AEDH.

Publications

The following printed publications in English were issued or prepared by LHRC:
LHRC members have worked on the following cases before international human rights
institutions: