Juris Sokolovskis born on June 13, 1976, in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

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Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n lawyer and politician, member of 7th, 8th and 9th Saeima, co-chairman of ForHRUL between 2007 and 2011.

Biography

1996 — takes part at founding the party Equal Rights

Equal Rights (Latvia)

Equal Rights was a political party in Latvia, mainly supported by the Russian minority.ER was founded on the basis of the "Equal Rights" faction of the Supreme Soviet as an NGO in 1993. The Equal Rights faction had been founded in April, 1990, after the Latvian parliamentary election, 1990.The...

. Joins Latvian Human Rights Committee

Latvian Human Rights Committee

Latvian Human Rights Committee is a human rights non-governmental organization in Latvia. It is member of international human rights and anti-racism NGOs FIDH, AEDH and ENAR. Co-chairpersons of LHRC since 2004 are Aleksejs Dimitrovs, Genadijs Kotovs and Natalija Jolkina...

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1998 — elected to 7th Saeima, becoming the youngest MP in Saeima's history.

1999 — Bachelor degree in law.

2001 — Master degree in law.

2002 — re-elected to Saeima.

2003 March—June — head of ForHRUL group in Saeima.

2004 May—June — temporarily serves as MEP from Latvia.

Since 2005 — co-chairman of ForHRUL youth organization.

2006 — re-elected to Saeima (serving until 2010).

2007—2011 — co-chairman of ForHRUL.

External links

• CV on ForHRUL site