Latvian Human Rights Committee

Latvian Human Rights Committee

Founded	1992
Focus	Human rights
Location	Riga, Latvia
Key people	Co-chairs N. Jolkina, V. Buzajevs
Website	www.lhrc.lv
Formerly called	Latvian Human Rights and International Humane Cooperation Committee
Member of FIDH, AEDH

Latvian Human Rights Committee (Latvian: Latvijas Cilvēktiesību komiteja, Russian: Латвийский комитет по правам человека) 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".

In 1992, LHRC was founded (then — as Latvian Human Rights and International Humanitarian Co-operation Committee) 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.

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:

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