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On Friday, December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, elections were held at the annual meeting of the European Network of the Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), and the Ombudsman's Office was elected to the GANHRI Working Group on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

On November 10 representative of the Ombudsman's Office participates in the seminar on the right to education of persons with disabilities during COVID-19 pandemic organized by the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions and Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia.

Ombudsman's Office October news summary

Representatives of the Ombudsman's Office attended the 27th annual conference “Covid-19 and children's rights: a lesson for the future” and the meeting of the General Assembly, it was organized by the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) in Athens from 27 to 29 September.

Ombudsman's Office September news summary.

Taken into account media reports regarding the situation on the Latvian-Belarusian border, as well as information previously provided by non-governmental organizations about on the several groups of foreigners, including vulnerable people, being for a longer period situated on the state border in a helpless situation, representatives of the Ombudsman's Office on 2 September 2021 visited Daugavpils Administration of the State Border Guard.

Ombudsman's Office August news summary.

On Friday, August 20, the President of Latvia Egils Levits presented the Order of the Three Stars to the Ombudsman Juris Jansons for meritorious service to Latvia at a solemn ceremony at Riga Castle.

Mass-media has published information and non-governmental organizations have also confirmed to the Ombudsman that currently a situation has developed at the Latvian-Belarusian border where about 30 adults and 11 children are in the open air in uninhabited areas without the possibility to enter Latvia or return to Belarus.

The Ombudsman has sent a letter to the Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers emphasizing that also during an emergency situation in certain administrative territories, the state is obliged to ensure that the restrictions are really necessary and do not disproportionately restrict human rights and allow Latvia to continue fulfilling international obligations.