As reported, a majority of Saeima members on Wednesday voted to refer the bill on Latvia's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to the next Saeima for a repeated review after President Edgars ...

Signed by 45 countries and the European Union as of 2019, the Council of Europe treaty is meant to standardise support for ...

The aim of the Istanbul Convention is to prevent violence against women. Even if Latvia does take a step back, Estonia will ...

RIGA - The Saeima released a statement today, which calls on the European Commission (EC) and the European Union (EU) Member States to further strengthen sanctions against Russia by developing new ...

A criminal case against former Saeima deputy Glorija Grevcova for justifying Russia's war crimes and inciting national hatred has been brought to court in Latvia. Source: Latvian Prosecutor General's ...

Latvia's President Edgars Rinkēvičs has said he is sending a law on the country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention back to parliament for further review, public broadcaster LSM reported on ...

A total of seven electoral lists were elected to the Saeima in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Latvia, with New Unity (JV), the party chaired by incumbent Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, ...

The Latvian parliament has passed a bill to ban all public celebrations on May 9, the only exception being the international Europe Day. The Latvian outlet Delfi reports that the Saeima considered the ...

CORRUPTION and the role of money in politics, voter apathy, emigration, foreign meddling, battles over history, ethnic integration: though a small country, Latvia is a testing ground for the biggest ...

The country's parliament, or Saeima, voted on 31 October to withdraw from the human rights treaty which opposes violence against women and domestic violence. Latvia's President Edgars Rinkēvičs has ...