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2010-01-25

Ten years with the Stockholm Declaration

On January 26, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Living History forum will host a conference to acknowledge that ten years have passed since the Stockholm declaration on Holocaust commemoration. Speakers include Ministers for Foreign Affairs Carl...

Source: Regeringen.se
2009-12-23

The Stockholm Programme: Focus on the citizen

What has the 2009 Swedish Presidency achieved in the area of justice and home affairs? Minister for Justice Beatrice Ask and Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Tobias Billström highlight some of the most important points below. The...

Source: se2009.eu
2009-12-16

"We have taken on the challenge"

Preliminary sum-up on the results from the Swedish Presidency in important areas Climate change The Presidency’s objective was to ensure that the EU continued to take responsibility for combating climate change and to act in...

Source: se2009.eu

In Focus

Summary of EU Presidency’s human rights efforts

Ordförandeskapsloggan, Copyright: RK

Read about the report to the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights on the Swedish Presidency’s work in the area of human rights.

Reviews of Sweden by the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies during 2008-2009

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During approximately one year’s time, Sweden has been reviewed by six of the treaty bodies. All information relating to the reviews are now available in one page.

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