The following articles have been tagged with "Ombudsman":
National: 20 May 13
A town in western Sweden has agreed to pay damages to a man who was told he wouldn't be hired if he refused to shake a woman's hand for religious reasons.
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Society: 15 May 13
The use of half-naked women by American Apparel to sell "unisex" shirts has sparked sexism complaints in Sweden, resulting in the US fashion retailer being reported to the country's advertising watchdog.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 13
Want more money? Want to learn how to convince your Swedish boss that you are indispensable? Sure, but make sure you do your homework first, explains union ombudsman Anna-Karin Mattsson.
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National: 6 May 13
Sweden's Justice Ombudsman announced on Monday it will not investigate the alleged racial profiling carried out by Stockholm police in the city's public transit system during a push to deport illegal immigrants.
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Business & Money: 5 Apr 13
A Swedish café owner who told parents to keep their kids away from his shop stands by his decision, despite losing a fair chunk of his "latte parent" customers and complaints about discrimination.
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Society: 28 Mar 13
One of the two women in the Swedish Assange case has dropped her high-profile lawyer, reportedly for speaking too much to the press.
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Society: 22 Mar 13
Two young women in Malmö upset at being told they couldn't dance as a pair in a Swedish traditional dancing class have reported the folk dance group for discrimination.
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Sport: 21 Mar 13
Threats and harassment in the Swedish sports industry affect almost half of all club directors but also taint the working life of referees and event employees, a government ombudsman has warned.
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Society: 19 Mar 13
Children suspected of serious crimes and held in Sweden's remand centres are rarely afforded any human contact and subject to isolation akin to torture, according to a new report.
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Business & Money: 12 Mar 13
A city in western Sweden is facing a discrimination lawsuit for halting a woman's recruitment process after she told them she was pregnant.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Mar 13
In our series profiling careers of foreigners who've moved to Sweden, The Local catches up with Australian Benedict Hugosson who came to Sweden for love and ended up launching a career in politics.
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National: 8 Mar 13
Birgitta Ohlsson made waves when she was appointed European Affairs Minister while pregnant, but she still wonders why Sweden lags behind its neighbours in having a woman head the government, the AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert discovers.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 13
In our series profiling Swedish newsmakers, our pick for Swede of the Week is firebrand feminist Gudrun Schyman, who wants to return to national politics to fight surging sexism and a lulling labour market.
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National: 4 Mar 13
A Stockholm coffee shop has banned children from its premises and sparked an uproar among the capital's caffeine-loving parents.
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Society: 22 Feb 13
Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin has said the royals are making a spectacle of themselves by not letting go of their critique of a satirical montage that portrayed Queen Silvia kneeling by a swastika.
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Society: 20 Feb 13
Sweden's Queen Silvia has resubmitted a press ethics complaint concerning the newspapers that chose to reproduce artwork that she found "insulting and hurtful" because it portrayed her scrubbing a Nazi swastika off the floor.
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National: 12 Feb 13
Only two people have managed to bring an employer to justice for ethnic discrimination at work, despite the introduction of a Swedish law in 1994 aimed at helping those who fell victim to prejudice.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Feb 13
A Romanian student in Uppsala has been left seething after a CV experiment in changing his name to sound "more Swedish" pulled in unprecedented success.
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Business & Money: 5 Feb 13
The mining company Northland Resources has failed in its bid to bring in extra investment to its new iron ore mine in Pajala, northern Sweden, which employs more than 800 people.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jan 13
Swedish reality television shows featuring hospitals and emergency services fail to protect patients' rights, according to a complaint filed on Monday that accuses public health authorities of breaking privacy law by allowing filming.
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Business & Money: 17 Jan 13
A woman who filed a discrimination case after being denied a job as a receptionist for being "too young" has been awarded a settlement by Sweden's Equality Ombudsman.
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Society: 15 Jan 13
A 43-year-old Swedish woman looking for romance ended up filing a complaint against the dating site eDarling to Sweden’s Consumer Agency after her love-seeking endeavours fell flat.
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Business & Money: 4 Jan 13
A Christmas advert in which naked staff members proclaim “I only need my mobile!” has set off an avalanche of sexism complaints against a Swedish mobile payments company.
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National: 29 Dec 12
Seven police detention centre staff are suspected of criminal conduct after several detainees, including a woman recently convicted for keeping bones in her flat, complained of mistreatment.
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National: 27 Dec 12
The woman arrested on suspicion of using bones as sex toys has reported the police who arrested her for misconduct and cited rough treatment and denigrating comments in her complaint.
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National: 7 Dec 12
A partially-sighted Swedish woman was barred from a disability conference because another attendee was allergic to her guide dog, but has retaliated by reporting the incident to Sweden's Equality Ombudsman.
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Science & Technology: 6 Dec 12
Popular youth website Stardoll may alter its services to the Swedish audience after a court ordered it to stop "aggressive" marketing to members of its virtual fashion world, where most users are underage girls.
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Society: 24 Nov 12
Sweden's largest toy chain has revamped its catalogues this Christmas to reflect modern views on gender roles, explaining that "it is not a boy or girl thing, it's a toy for children".
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Society: 19 Nov 12
With Sweden's youth unemployment statistics consistently high and more young Swedes forced to seek greener pastures in Norway, AFP's Soren Billing looks into the Swedish model and how it's leaving young Swedes jobless.
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Politics: 10 Nov 12
Swedish schoolteachers should be trained on how to handle racism in the classroom, according to a new report into xenophobia presented to the government on Friday.
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Lifestyle: 23 Oct 12
The Vikings didn't only bring tools, trade and violence to Britain over 1,000 years ago - they also brought language and The Local has collected the ten most common English words with "Swedish" roots.
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National: 9 Oct 12
Police often avoid filing accident reports following a 2011 ruling by a Swedish court determining the papers to be official documents and as such fair game for Swedish press.
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Business & Money: 1 Oct 12
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has removed out all the women from the version of the company's famed catalogue to be distributed in Saudi Arabia, prompting a stern reaction from Sweden's trade minister.
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Politics: 24 Sep 12
Sweden’s Press Ombudsman Ola Sigvardsson has been subjected to threats after publishing a text where he questioned the publication of the images of the subway robber in Swedish media.
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Society: 20 Sep 12
Swedish clothing giant H&M has been slammed by Sweden's advertising watchdog over an ad campaign featuring a deeply tanned model that sparked outrage among cancer groups.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 12
A lesbian couple in southern Sweden has reported the county council to the Swedish Equality Ombudsman, for making them pay 3,000 kronor ($457) for two inseminations.
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Business & Money: 24 Aug 12
A Swedish couple has received a 36,000 kronor ($5,450) payout from budget airline Ryanair after being left stranded in Brussels in 2006 and forced to make their own way home.
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Society: 7 Aug 12
A man in southern Sweden has reported the police to the Parliamentary Ombudsman after being dissatisfied with the reward he was given for turning in a lost bike.
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National: 1 Aug 12
Prisoners at Kirseberg prison in Malmö have complained to the Parliamentary Ombudsman after prison authorities banned card playing, saying that excessive gambling has led to violence.
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Society: 20 Jul 12
A Stockholm mother has reported the organizers of her 5-year-old daughter’s swimming course after not one of the children had learned how to swim after 16 classes.
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Society: 12 Jul 12
A local woman and Christian Democrat youth leader has protested the removal of a sexually-suggestive food stand advertisement in southern Sweden by taking to the streets with red lips and painted nails to deliver her own sausages.
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National: 5 Jul 12
A school in southern Sweden told a female student to "tone down" her homosexuality as a remedy to bullying from other students for being gay, prompting the girl to report the school for discrimination.
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Society: 18 May 12
A job ad for a personal assistant for a 35-year-old man who wanted an "easily trained" woman and was prepared to offer a clothing allowance, has been pulled due to a flood of applications from women eager to fill the position.
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Society: 2 May 12
A Swedish man who received five parking tickets on the same street over the past two years despite being legally parked, has reported the matter despite an apology from city officials acknowledging their repeated mistake.
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Society: 10 Apr 12
A local official in northern Sweden was allowed to stay on the job for several weeks after it was revealed that he had been sending sex-themed text messages to a disabled woman.
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Business & Money: 2 Apr 12
Increasing numbers of foreign-born women are taking the plunge into self-employment in Sweden in order to overcome the difficulties of finding a job, new statistic show.
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Society: 31 Mar 12
A landlord in Hässleholm in southern Sweden has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman after refusing to let an apartment to two men.
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Society: 30 Mar 12
A new Swedish toy catalogue has reversed the traditional gender roles by showing Spiderman pushing a pram, and a young girl riding a toy racecar.
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Society: 28 Mar 12
A Norwegian man has reported Stockholm to the Swedish consumer ombudsman claiming that the slogan "Stockholm – the Capital of Scandinavia" is "misleading".
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Society: 28 Mar 12
A Swedish court judge has been slammed for a recent ruling in which he wrote it was "quite understandable" that a man hit his wife after she refused to tell him where she had been.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 12
Prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg has been sued for 178,400 kronor ($26,523) in damages by a boy who was allegedly continuously bullied and tortured by other students.
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Society: 24 Mar 12
Princess Estelle's surname, or rather lack of one, has become a matter for the Parliamentary Ombudsman after the Swedish Tax Agency was reported for allowing Sweden's Royal Family to skirt the country's naming laws.
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National: 23 Mar 12
Children in Sweden who suffer violence and sexual abuse aren't prioritized by social services according to a new report, which blames “ignorant” social service staff who are not able to pick up victims’ signals.
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Society: 10 Mar 12
A Swedish paper manufacturer made an unpleasant discovery recently, when they found that someone had been drawing swastikas on the company's paper rolls - later exported to a major client in Germany.
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Society: 7 Mar 12
A court in southern Sweden has ruled that furniture giant Ikea was "not wrong" to deny a 5-year-old disabled girl entry to the ballpit in their playland.
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Business & Money: 24 Feb 12
The Swedish hospital that advertised for “hot” nurses has been forced to apologize after an discrimination complaint from a 64-year-old man who claims he wasn't considered because he is “too wrinkly” and has a limp.
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Business & Money: 17 Feb 12
After numerous complaints about a provocative Ryanair advert featuring a calendar bursting with a bevy of bikini-clad women, the discount airline has been rapped by Sweden's advertising watchdog which ruled the advert was "sexist".
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National: 14 Feb 12
A man held in custody in Gothenburg, in western Sweden, has reported the detention centre to authorities after it took two hours for toilet paper to be delivered to his cell.
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Education: 27 Jan 12
The principal of a school in western Sweden is under investigation for unilaterally scrapping the marks given to a class of eighth graders because they were too low in comparison to other schools in the area.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 12
With union leader Stefan Löfven set to take over as head of the Social Democrats, The Local takes a look at how a welder from northern Sweden found his way to the top ranks of Swedish politics.
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National: 24 Jan 12
The Swedish National Rail Service, SJ, was not wrong to kick a Muslim man off the train for not showing his pass while deep in prayer, ruled a Swedish watchdog after finding it impossible to prove he had been discriminated against.
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National: 18 Jan 12
A Swedish transsexual has reported three plastic surgery clinics for discrimination after repeatedly being turned down for breast implant surgery following a sex-change operation.
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Education: 11 Jan 12
Teachers in Swedish schools can, in certain situations, prohibit students from wearing Islamic veils that reveal only their eyes, the country's school's agency has ruled.
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National: 10 Dec 11
Police from Gävleborg in eastern Sweden "deserve serious criticism" for deporting a man to the wrong country in October of last year, the Ombudsman for Justice has ruled.
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National: 9 Dec 11
A woman from Sweden claims to have lost her rental property after the contract was already signed and keys had been exchanged, following pressure from the other tenants to not let a member of the Roma people live in the building.
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Society: 7 Dec 11
An advertisement for a health drink featuring a slang term for sexually desirable mothers does not discriminate against women, Sweden's advertising watchdog has ruled.
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Business & Money: 7 Dec 11
Sweden's advertising watchdog has been flooded with complaints concerning an advertisement for a calendar featuring scantily clad Ryanair stewardesses.
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National: 28 Nov 11
A local Sweden Democrat has courted controversy by claiming that the word “negro” is not a racist term, explaining that there is "the red race, the yellow race, and then there's me, who is of the white race".
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Education: 24 Nov 11
All of Sweden's national boarding schools will be investigated by the Schools Inspectorate after reports of systematic bullying and violence among students.
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National: 16 Nov 11
Swedish police were given orders to deport a man to Iran, but instead sent him to Iraq, where he now risks 15 years in prison for claiming to be a citizen in the country.
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National: 15 Nov 11
A mother had to wait five days to find out that Swedish police had arrested her 18-year-old son, by which time she had already reported him as a missing person.
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Education: 14 Nov 11
A high school in Täby in northern Stockholm has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman over allegations that the principal played down rape allegations as "stuff that boys do".
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National: 14 Nov 11
The National Police Board has been sued by a rights group for alleged discrimination, arguing that women have been favoured ahead of men in the recruitment process.
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Education: 4 Nov 11
A school in southern Sweden that failed to help a student who suffered two years of physical and verbal abuse from fellow students, who posted some of the incidents on YouTube, has been sued by Sweden's child welfare watchdog.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A devout Muslim was kicked off a train bound for Flen, south of Stockholm, in May, after failing to show his ticket to the conductor as he was deep in prayer.
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National: 31 Oct 11
Four guys out shoe shopping on a Sunday afternoon suddenly found themselves detained and whisked to the edge of town by police, mistaking them for a gang of criminal football hooligans.
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Society: 21 Oct 11
A Sweden Democrat politician from Malmö who was called a “bloody foreigner” by the chair of her housing association has been awarded 180,000 kronor ($27,000) in damages for racial discrimination.
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Business & Money: 18 Oct 11
The Jack & Jones clothing retailer has been rapped by Sweden's advertising watchdog for a “sexist” ad campaign which utilised scantily clad women to market a line of men's clothing.
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Business & Money: 17 Oct 11
Beauty giant L’Oréal continues to market its anti-wrinkle creams in Sweden with ”misleading information” despite a ban from last year, according to Sweden's consumer watchdog.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
A Chinese chef who collapsed from exhaustion on the streets of Gothenburg after being forced to work under 'slave-like' conditions has received a large indemnity after a Swedish union intervened on his behalf.
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National: 11 Oct 11
A Swedish court has ruled that prostitutes from other European Union countries are free to operate in Sweden for at least three months, much to the dismay of the police.
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Society: 4 Oct 11
Staff at a Swedish prison had no right to interrupt an inmate and his girlfriend while they were having sex simply because the couple's infant daughter was also in the visiting room, Sweden's Parliamentary Ombudsman has ruled.
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Politics: 22 Sep 11
Sweden's top legal official has given backing to the decision to reassign the integration ministry civil servant who compared Islam to totalitarian ideologies.
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National: 4 Sep 11
A five year-old girl was picked up from her pre-school by police officers and underwent a medical exam without the knowledge of her parents, who have reported the matter to the ombudsman.
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Education: 1 Sep 11
Several Swedish universities and colleges have been rebuked by the Ombudsman for Justice for demanding that applications for employment be submitted in English.
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Society: 29 Jul 11
Dozens of men have filed sexual discrimination complaints with Sweden's Equality Ombudsman (DO), after being denied admission to Sweden's National Police Academy.
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Business & Money: 29 Jun 11
An ad campaign by a Swedish dating site urging people to cheat on their spouses and which shattered the record for consumer complaints, has been cleared by Sweden's advertising watchdog.
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National: 29 Jun 11
Police in Stockholm have been forced to apologize after singling out three nationalities in a letter to a local neighbourhood watch group warning them against organised crime.
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Business & Money: 17 Jun 11
A television commercial for a Swedish travel website featuring a graphic depiction of its "sickeningly low prices" tagline has drawn scorn from the Sweden's advertising watchdog.
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Society: 1 Jun 11
The Swedish government has rejected calls for the establishment of a truth commission to investigate the King, his friends and their alleged contacts with the criminal underworld.
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Education: 1 Jun 11
A school in western Sweden has been sued for almost a million kronor ($160,000) by four families who claim that not enough has been done to help bullied children.
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Business & Money: 26 May 11
Every fifth business leader in Sweden could consider paying a bribe to win advantages in business and to retain clients, a new survey shows.
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National: 23 May 11
Sweden's top watchdog has slammed the country's Migration Board for human rights violations stemming from the agency's detention practices for people awaiting deportation.
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Society: 19 May 11
A Swedish student who was trying to boost her finances by stripping and selling sexual favours has reported her school for discrimination after being suspended for her "sick" behaviour.
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Society: 12 May 11
A woman in southern Sweden was facing eviction from a flat she had been renting from her father for 16 years because he didn't approve of her "lesbian activity".
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Politics: 12 May 11
As a county council election re-run beckons in western Sweden, there are fears that a record low proportion of the electorate will bother to cast their votes.
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Education: 11 May 11
Despite criticism from several quarters, truancy will be displayed in the grade reports of all school children in Sweden, minister for education Jan Björklund has decided.
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Business & Money: 6 May 11
A Swedish milkmaid who was denied a job at a farm in southern Sweden over suspicions she was trying to get pregnant should be compensated by the country's employment agency, Sweden's eqality watchdog claims.
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Society: 3 May 11
Two disabled women were made to feel like "a menace to society" after being told by a Swedish Q&A hotline that Stockholm clubs were an "inappropriate" environment for wheelchairs.
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National: 27 Apr 11
The discrimination faced by Sweden's Roma population violates Swedish law, according to a new report by the country's Equality Ombudsman, which argues for tougher legislation to protect the Roma's rights.
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