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In the spring of 2025, the UN will review how Sweden respects human rights. Ahead of the review by the UN Human Rights Council, Civil Rights Defenders has submitted a shadow report highlighting seriou...

Theme: Rule of Law and States’ use of Human rights Rights to defend and justify their actions 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights. As t...

Democracy and rule of law continued to weaken across Europe in 2023, and restrictions on the right to peaceful protest have increased significantly. That is what is shown by a new report on rule and l...

The following op-ed was first published in Swedish in Global Bar Magazine on 25 January 2024: If the Swedish government would take the initiative in establishing a special rapporteur on democratic ele...

In recent decades, a trend of democratic backsliding (also known as autocratisation) has swept across the world. In a new report, we examine last year’s developments from the Tidö Agreement from...

The largest trial in Swedish history is taking place in Stockholm, in which two former representatives of a Swedish oil company are charged with aiding and abetting war crimes. Last week, the Stockhol...

Today marks the end of the trial of the man charged with complicity in the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. We have followed the trial for over two years, first in the District ...

More and more Swedes are worried that Sweden is moving in an undemocratic direction, and more and more feel that our basic democratic principles have been threatened over the past 12 months. This is s...

Racism and the law – Examining the Legal Systems’ Ability to Combat Issues of Racial, Ethnic and Religious Inequality 29 September 2023 – Stockholm, Sweden The year 2023 marks both the 75th anniversar...

Today marks the start of a landmark trial in the Stockholm District Court against two former executives of the Swedish oil company Lundin Oil, now Orrön Energy. The two corporate leaders have been ind...