Buscador: Letònia

18/08/2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

10/06/2004 Digital photogrammetry techniques can be used for documentation of Iraqi cultural monuments to preserve this otherwise vulnerable heritage. In an effort to protect it, a trilateral capacity building programme for Iraqi cultural officers has jointly been initiated by Latvia, UNDP and UNESCO.

02/03/2004 Two Latvian asylum seekers, Jelena Serenja and Genadis Suhtskis, have been deported from the UK just eight weeks before they would have been allowed to legally stay in the country.

07/08/2003 U.S. opposition to the International Criminal Court has led Washington to suspend military aid to 35 countries that won't sign bilateral agreements exempting U.S. citizens from punishment for war crimes--even though some are helping the U.S. in Iraq. Threatening friendly countries, says Human Rights Watch, "is a highly short-sighted and counter-productive approach to U.S. foreign policy."

27/08/2001 Releases of hazardous pesticides and heavy metals into the Baltic Sea area have been cut in half since the late 1980s, according to an inter-governmental environment group.

07/09/2000 Russia might have been angry when it was first proposed, but Latvia's neighbour was silent when a new law linking proficiency in Latvian to employment opportunities in that country went into effect on the weekend.