In May 2019, Civil Rights Defenders and the Swedish Refugee Law Center reported the Swedish state to the Chancellor of Justice. The case concerns an underaged man who went through a flawed medical age...
On June 5, Civil Rights Defenders filed a complaint against Sweden to the UN’s Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding a case where a young man was denied asylum. The young man,...
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...
The situation for migrants in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, continues to be worrisome. Following a recent case of police brutality against four migrant men, witnessed by one of Civil Rights Defend...
Civil Rights Defenders, together with its partner organisation BH Journalists Association, calls upon authorities of the Una-Sana Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as the International O...
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...
In 2015, Shabnam Khudoydodova, a human rights defender from Tajikistan, was targeted by Tajik authorities in retaliation for her political activism online. With the support of Civil Rights Defenders E...
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