Rights and freedoms in Latvian constitutional law

Abstract

The article provides an assessment of the recognition of rights and freedoms in the Constitution of Latvia through an historical perspective. Remarkably, the focus is devoted to the relevance of the introduction of Chapter 8 of the Basic Law following the independence from the Soviet Union in the 1990s’. The text discusses also the issue of the protection of individual rights for non-ethnic nationals, in the context of a country home to minority groups of considerable size.