Following Sweden’s Supreme Court ruling on January 23 2020, confirming the Girja’s Sami village land and water rights in the Sami traditional territory, we have received more and more reports of...
Today, Sweden will be investigated by the UN Committee against Torture which monitors if UN member states live up to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or P...
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council conducts a review of the human rights situation in Sweden. Find out why Sweden is reviewed and what Civil Rights Defenders has done to influence the UN h...
Today, the Gothenburg District Court announced that 15 people connected to the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) were acquitted of charges of agitation against ethnic minority groups. The indictment wa...
The trial against the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR), a Swedish Nazi organisation, starts today in the District Court of Gothenburg. 16 people are being charged with agitation against ethnic minorit...
In January 2020, Sweden will be reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council that is assigned to monitor Sweden’s respect for human rights. The review is conducted within the framework of the Univers...
More than half of the interviewed EU Citizens living in Malmö have been subjected to hate crimes in Sweden in the past year, according to a report published today by Skåne City Mission and Civil Right...
“He comes every morning and every night, on his way to and from work. I am too ashamed to tell you what he says to me. He makes vulgar gestures and spits on me. This has been going on for more than th...
Civil Rights Defenders and Skåne City Mission are launching a new project aimed at revealing and tackling hate crimes against Roma EU Migrants in Malmö. “He comes every morning and every night, on his...
Members of the media and civil society actors, including human rights defender Nataša Kandić, have recently been subjected to a wave of hate speech from Members of Parliament and right wing extremists...
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