November 20, 2009
The following articles have been tagged with "Gender":
Politics: 16 Nov 09
Sweden, the current head of the EU's rotating presidency, is ratcheting up its hunt for consensus candidates for two new EU top jobs. Stockholm intends to have the positions filled at a summit later this week.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Nov 09
Sweden's much-vaunted gender equality statistics do not stretch as far as the boardrooms of private companies, an area in which the country has fallen way off the international pace, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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National: 9 Nov 09
Sweden has come in for harsh criticism from the country's United Nations association and 15 other organizations for failing to abide by a number of UN conventions.
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Business & Money: 3 Nov 09
Four women who were denied sick benefits during their pregnancies have won a landmark discrimination case against Sweden’s National Social Insurance agency (Försäkringskassan).
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Society: 15 Oct 09
Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman plans to launch a nationwide investigation into discrimination in Sweden’s housing market.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 09
Since when is the ubiquitous Anna Anka a feminist? And why are feminists apportioned blame for so many of the worlds ills? The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson enters the Hollywood housewife debate.
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Education: 14 Oct 09
A group of women who are suing a Swedish university for gender discrimination have also reported Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman for refusing to take up their case.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 09
An outspoken Hollywood housewife prompts The Local's Jeanne Rudbeck to weigh up her options: stay a wage slave to the grave or get back to bitchin' in the kitchen.
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Society: 6 Oct 09
US-based toy retailer Toys"R"Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders.
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Society: 29 Sep 09
A male cross-dresser from Luleå in northern Sweden has won his legal struggle to go by the name Madeleine.
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Society: 21 Sep 09
Opponents of same-sex marriage made significant gains in Sweden’s church elections on Sunday, on a voter turnout of barely 12 percent.
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National: 20 Sep 09
Polling booths are opening across Sweden on Sunday morning to welcome voters in the national church elections. The election is however expected to be given the cold shoulder by 90 percent of registered voters.
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National: 13 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday that three Swedes have been arrested in Pakistan.
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National: 6 Sep 09
Police in Stockholm have arrested a man suspected of killing two people on the archipelago island of Ingarö just east of Stockholm.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 09
The idea of feminist porn may be attractive to some but there is no reason for the state to cough up half a million kronor to fund its production, argues Beatrice Fredriksson, a member of the Moderate Party's youth organisation and author of the Anti-Feminist Initiative blog.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 09
Film maker Mia Engberg explains the genesis of Dirty Diaries, a movie made up of 12 'feminist porn' shorts that has been generating heated debate across Sweden in the lead-up to its premiere this week.
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National: 30 Aug 09
The Swedish Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) wants to abolish several reforms adopted by the governing Alliance parties, according to a new report. These would include the childcare allowance, the equality bonus and tax deductions for household services.
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Society: 22 Aug 09
Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows.
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Lifestyle: 21 Aug 09
As a human rights group publishes details of a bloody campaign of hate being waged against gays in Iraq, Rami Abdelrahman speaks to members of a recently founded initiative for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Arabs in Sweden.
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National: 18 Aug 09
A Swedish gay rights organisation has called on the government not to deport any homosexual Iraqi asylum seekers in the light of a shocking new report categorising an extermination campaign against gay men in the Middle Eastern country.
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Society: 7 Aug 09
A 32-year-old woman was found guilty on Friday of the rape of another woman by the Gothenburg District Court.
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Society: 4 Aug 09
Swedish men’s enlightened attitudes toward equality and gender roles make them among the best potential husbands in the developed world, a recent study shows.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jul 09
As Stockholm gears up for the weekend’s Pride Parade, The Local’s Gabriel Stein takes a look at the difficulties facing two Stockholm-area football clubs as they attempt to show their solidarity with the city’s gay community.
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Lifestyle: 30 Jul 09
As northern Europe's biggest Pride festival nears its climax, The Local offers its tips for how to make the most of the weekend.
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National: 30 Jul 09
The Swedish health and welfare board has launched a review of the healthcare available to transsexuals seeking to change their gender in response to criticism by interest groups.
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Lifestyle: 29 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Stockholm Pride & International rugby in Stockholm; U2 in Gothenburg; African beach party & Lucy Love (DK) music in Malmö.
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Society: 27 Jul 09
Gay and bisexual youths in Sweden suffer from poorer health, including psychological problems and an increased incidence of attempted suicide, a new report says.
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Lifestyle: 23 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Stockholm Pride & Opera al fresco in Stockholm; eccentric variety show in Gothenburg; Möllevången music, theatre & arts festival in Malmö.
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Education: 23 Jul 09
The current recession has put increased pressure on Sweden's institutions of higher education as more and more men head back to school due to the shaky job market.
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Society: 21 Jul 09
More female than male same-sex couples have chosen to marry since Swedish homosexuals were granted the legal right to marry on May 1st of this year.
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Society: 19 Jul 09
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin is more heterosexual than US President Barack Obama, at least if a new survey by Stockholm Pride is to be believed.
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Society: 16 Jul 09
The Church of England has condemned a proposal by the Church of Sweden to grant same-sex couples the right to religious wedding ceremonies.
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Society: 7 Jul 09
Elderly homosexuals in Stockholm are hopeful that their long-held hopes of having a nursing home of their own may soon become a reality.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Jun 09
A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.
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Society: 15 Jun 09
Sex education should form part of the curriculum for all adults attending Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) classes, a new government report has proposed.
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Society: 2 Jun 09
Nearly 70,000 young Swedes feel they aren’t able to freely choose whom they want to marry, according to a new study, leading the report’s authors to propose Sweden outlaw forced arranged marriages altogether.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 09
Feminist Initiative lynchpin Gudrun Schyman speaks to The Local about her vision for a gender equal Europe.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 09
Mikael Gustafsson of the Left Party, third on the Left Party's list of European Parliament election candidates, is keen to stress the growing importance of the EU's legislative body.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 09
Eager to make her mark in the upcoming election, Marie Wickberg of the Centre Party presents herself as a fresh-faced alternative to the "tired old men in the European Parliament".
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Science & Technology: 12 May 09
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 May 09
A recent European Commission report identifying Sweden as the rape capital of Europe should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism, argues sociologist Laura Agustín.
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National: 2 May 09
The first same-sex couple to be granted the same legal status as their heterosexual counterparts married in Stockholm on May Day.
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Politics: 28 Apr 09
The Social Democrats want make it mandatory for Swedish women to register for military conscription, rather than allowing them to do so voluntarily.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Apr 09
Sweden needs to do much more to clamp down on rapists, according to reports from Amnesty International and the United Nations. Jennifer Heape examines the disparity between the country's high incidence of rape and its low conviction rate.
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National: 9 Apr 09
The Swedish administrative court of appeals has granted a 28-year-old Sandviken transsexual the right to be called Immanuel, overturning a decision by the Swedish Tax Agency that the male moniker was unsuitable for a woman.
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Society: 2 Apr 09
Sweden's parliament passed new legislation by a wide majority on Wednesday that will allow homosexuals to marry in church and civil weddings.
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Education: 30 Mar 09
In a closely watched affirmative action case, a Swedish court ruled on Monday that men should not have been offered spots in a veterinary school programme ahead of women with equivalent qualifications.
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Society: 20 Mar 09
Swedish swimwear firm Panos Emporio has come out strongly in defence of its marketing material following allegations of sexism from a leading advertising watchdog.
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Business & Money: 20 Mar 09
An admittedly “boorish” Coca-Cola web advertisement for its Zero drink has been scolded by Sweden’s sexist ad watchdog for portraying women as “pure sex objects”.
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Politics: 9 Mar 09
Dismay over the how several United Nations (UN) organizations have used development aid from Sweden has led the government to propose tougher conditions for allowing aid groups to receive Swedish funding.
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National: 8 Mar 09
As the world celebrates International Women's Day a new report from Statistics Sweden indicates that the self-styled "most equal country in the world" still has some work to do.
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Politics: 6 Mar 09
Sweden’s Moderate Party says it wants half of the party’s candidates for the 2010 elections to be women.
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Society: 27 Feb 09
A new poll shows that one in three Swedes want King Carl XVI Gustaf to hand over the throne over to Crown Princess Victoria.
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Lifestyle: 24 Feb 09
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, whose engagement to her former gym teacher was announced on Tuesday, is a popular and respected royal known for her easy-going style, poise and intelligence, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin.
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National: 22 Feb 09
Pregnant Norwegian woman have been allowed to undergo abortions in Sweden after finding out the sex of their child, according to new revelations.
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Science & Technology: 16 Feb 09
A doctor in Sweden has asked health authorities for clarification after a woman twice had abortions carried out upon learning her fetuses were girls.
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Dating: 11 Feb 09
Every week, we ask a regular panel of readers to discuss a particular aspect of life in Sweden. This week: moving to Sweden for love.
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National: 6 Feb 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious rapists who made contact with his victims over the internet, successfully enrolled in a distance learning course on computer security offered by a Swedish university.
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Politics: 1 Feb 09
S we can! exclaimed the Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin at a party conference in Västerås on Saturday. She intended to evoke US president Barack Obama, but used the name of a cannabis advocacy group.
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Society: 21 Jan 09
Sweden’s legacy of lax attitudes toward pornography has come back to haunt the country’s national library, which has been found to have large quantities of child pornography in its collection.
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Society: 21 Jan 09
Three of the parties in the four-party governing coalition have tabled a motion that is expected to pave the way for gay marriage in Sweden from May 1st this year.
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Society: 20 Jan 09
For the first time ever, women outnumber the men among the new recruits at the Swedish National Police Academy as the January intake arrives in Umeå and Växjö to start their training.
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Society: 8 Jan 09
Sweden's Equal Opportunities Ombudsman has ruled against a man from Malmö who disputed the right of a local gym to reserve a section for women only.
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Politics: 2 Jan 09
The Swedish government has received plaudits from the opposition Social Democrats over new figures which show that state appointments are in line with Sweden's gender and ethnic diversity.
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Dating: 29 Dec 08
Swedish singles prefer a quiet night in on New Year's Eve and have a more reticent attitude to pleasurable pursuits in general, a new survey of European attitudes has shown.
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Education: 15 Dec 08
The youth arm of Sweden's largest gay rights group has expressed fury at educational material distributed by two major tampon manufacturers.
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Lifestyle: 12 Dec 08
Some of it is sleek, and some of it is just plain weird. Some of it’s pretty, and some of it is just plain ugly…by design. Here’s The Local’s guide to the best of Swedish design online.
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National: 12 Dec 08
While generally supportive of equality between the sexes, Swedes still resist tampering with the Lucia holiday tradition which stipulates only girls should bear a candle-lit crown on December 13th.
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Lifestyle: 9 Dec 08
Marge Thorell takes a peek inside the home of a Swedish designer whose own artistic legacy has freed her from the shadow of her celebrated husband.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 08
Nobel literature laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio explores the paradoxes of his profession and argues that the eradication of hunger and illiteracy go hand-in-hand, writes Charlotte West.
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Politics: 7 Dec 08
Sweden’s opposition political parties have announces plans to build a united coalition government following the 2010 Riksdag elections.
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Dating: 4 Dec 08
Researchers in Sweden studying personal ads have found more evidence to support the old cliche that men like younger women, and women prefer older men.
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Science & Technology: 4 Dec 08
Neuroscientists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have succeeded in getting subjects to perceive another person's the body as their own.
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Education: 27 Nov 08
Two Swedish ombudsman offices have added their voices to the chorus of criticism about a school book accused of having racist and sexist contents, but are powerless to do anything about it.
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Education: 25 Nov 08
Parents in Karlskoga in central Sweden are up in arms over what they see as racist and sexist passages in a book designed to help first graders learn how to read.
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Lifestyle: 20 Nov 08
What’s on: International Film Festival & Mali Bluesman in Stockholm; the search for Lucia & Lambchop in Gothenburg; Jose Carrerras in Malmö.
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Science & Technology: 17 Nov 08
Transvestism, along with six other sexual behaviours, will be struck from Sweden’s official list of medical diagnoses starting on January 1st, 2009.
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Lifestyle: 13 Nov 08
What’s on: Ron Sexsmith & DV8 Physical Theatre in Stockholm; Cirkus Cirkör & English farce in Gothenburg; Lambchop & Dirty Pretty Things in Malmö.
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Society: 13 Nov 08
US power tool maker Black & Decker has received a hammering from a Swedish advertising watchdog for an advert described as "degrading" to women.
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Politics: 11 Nov 08
As Sweden moves closer to a same-sex marriage law, Left Party leader Lars Ohly wants to include a provision to force pastors to wed gay couples.
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Society: 6 Nov 08
A decision to allow transsexual men in Sweden to get prosthetic penises free of charge from local health authorities has drawn criticism because the prostheses on offer don’t get erect.
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Dating: 6 Nov 08
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has said Sweden may allow homosexuals to marry in the Church of Sweden from May 2009 pending the adoption of a new law.
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Politics: 5 Nov 08
Sweden’s Christian Democrats have refused to bend on the question of gender neutral marriage, forcing the government to submit a dluted marriage bill to the Riksdag with hopes that a same-sex marriage amendment will be added.
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Politics: 29 Oct 08
A government commission has proposed that Sweden abandon peacetime military conscription.
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Politics: 25 Oct 08
The Moderates, Liberal party (Folkpartiet) and Centre party have rejected calls from the Christian Democrats for a compromise over gay marriage in the face of a threatened revolt by government MPs.
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Society: 17 Oct 08
A Swedish advertising watchdog has slammed Danish toymaker Lego for a catalogue it claims promotes outdated gender roles.
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National: 15 Oct 08
A father-to-be from Hallstahammar in central Sweden has been sentenced to pay 4000 kronor ($555) in fines after threatening to put a gun to a doctor’s head if he didn’t tell the man the gender of his unborn child.
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Society: 15 Oct 08
One in five female managers in Sweden has been harassed on account of her gender, while only three percent of male managers have suffered the same treatment.
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Society: 9 Oct 08
Sweden's Equal Opportunities Ombudsman has ruled against a woman who accused a dance school of discrimination when it refused to allow her to take the lead while learning the foxtrot.
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Dating: 8 Oct 08
Financial crisis or not, Swedes are much less inclined to spend vast sums in their efforts to find a mate in comparison to their European counterparts, a new study reveals.
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Sport: 6 Oct 08
Athletics in Sweden fail to live up to demands set by the country’s laws on gender equality, according to an investigation by the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman.
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Society: 30 Sep 08
The Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket) on Monday revealed the final design for its new, more gender-sensitive pedestrian crossing signs.
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Science & Technology: 29 Sep 08
Foreign born and low income women in Sweden are missing out on their right to mammograms, according to a new study.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Sep 08
Anti-globalization activists have warned of a downward turn for women's rights across Europe, citing growing religious extremism and neo-liberalism as contributory factors.
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Science & Technology: 18 Sep 08
Deaths from heart attacks in Sweden have been cut in half in the last 13 years, according to a new report.
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Lifestyle: 10 Sep 08
There’s more to Swedish design than minimalist Scandinavian pine and Ikea flatpacks, as Jennifer Heape discovered at Stockholm’s newest art space, Designgalleriet.
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Science & Technology: 1 Sep 08
Tests for the sexually transmitted disease, which are available for order over the internet, have proven extremely popular in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 19 Aug 08
Björn Borg men's briefs have been found to contain shockingly high levels of a toxic chemical banned in the EU.
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Sport: 6 Aug 08
With the official opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just days away, The Local offers readers a quick guide to some of Sweden’s medal hopefuls.
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Lifestyle: 4 Aug 08
Boys in pink sandals and girls breaking wind with their armpits - two new Swedish publishers of children's literature are causing a stir with books deliberately designed to propagate the country's social values, writes AFP's Nina Larson.
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