February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Ombudsman":
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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Education: 22 Apr 11
Five years after the law against abuse and discrimination in schools came into force, only 66 Swedish students received compensation.
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National: 19 Apr 11
Two student associations at Lund University in southern Sweden have been reported for hate speech after a party featuring the sale of "slaves" complete with blackened faces and ropes around their necks.
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Business & Money: 14 Apr 11
A pensioners' rights group in central Sweden has accused a Swedish bank of discrimination over plans to end cash handling services at local branch offices.
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Society: 13 Apr 11
The Council of Europe has claimed that Swedish is under threat as an official language in Finland with officials failing to take the language seriously.
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Society: 2 Apr 11
A lesbian couple has accused Sweden's social insurance agency of discrimination after being denied the right to the government's gender equity bonus for parents who share parental leave equally.
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Business & Money: 21 Mar 11
Swedish bank SEB advised an 87-year-old customer to invest her savings 'long term' with a return not expected until her 95th birthday, and has now been found to be at fault by the consumer complaints board.
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Society: 18 Mar 11
An ad campaign by a Swedish dating site urging people to cheat on their spouses has shattered the record for consumer complaints, while the company's CEO defended the site as "an alternative to divorce".
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Politics: 16 Mar 11
The Swedish government has failed to adhere to a decision by the country's Parliamentary Ombudsman banning the use of English in email addresses.
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Society: 15 Mar 11
A new Swedish website which challenges married people "to liven up life and have an affair" has been reported to the advertising ombudsman amid a chorus of criticism.
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Society: 8 Mar 11
Bus operator Keolis has abandoned plans to enforce a Swedish-only policy on drivers in Jönköping in central Sweden, with the company hierarchy stating that its staff should be free to enjoy their lunch in a language of their choice.
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Society: 10 Feb 11
Sweden's Equality Ombudsman has filed a lawsuit against parcel delivery company United Parcel Service (UPS) after the company dismissed a Muslim driver who refused to shave his beard.
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Society: 9 Feb 11
A woman from Borås in western Sweden has filed a discrimination complaint against a health clinic after she was told to go back to Africa and get help from a medicine man for pain in her legs.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 11
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters the next round of his legal battle stemming from sex crime allegations in Sweden, The Local’s Karen Holst takes a look at some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Assange and his secret-divulging website.
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Society: 2 Feb 11
An advert for TV operator Boxer featuring an overly-muscled animated figure dressed only in boxer shorts reduces men to sex objects, the Swedish Advertising Ombudsman has ruled.
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Politics: 1 Feb 11
The Swedish government has announced that the Equality Ombudsman (DO), Katri Linna, is to be reassigned, despite having four years remaining in her post.
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National: 25 Jan 11
The increasing number of rejected asylum seekers being housed in a local jail has prompted the chief of police in Gothenburg to consider reporting himself to Sweden’s Parliamentary Ombudsman.
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National: 22 Jan 11
A farmer in southern Sweden who refused to employ a woman after she informed him she had had a miscarriage has been found guilty of discrimination and violating Swedish parental leave laws.
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Education: 21 Jan 11
Swedish universities should be offered cash equality bonuses’ for making significant strides toward increased gender equity, a government commission has proposed.
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Society: 18 Jan 11
A Swedish lesbian pastor who was passed over for a job with a diocese in central Sweden has accused the local vicar of discrimination.
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Politics: 4 Jan 11
A local Swedish politician who suggested levying a tax linked to people's weight has apologised for the controversial proposal after it was reported to Sweden's Ombudsmen for Justice.
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National: 3 Jan 11
Three workers at at a Volvo engine plant in central Sweden were given their marching orders after one of them described his place of work as a 'madhouse' in a Facebook status update.
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National: 29 Dec 10
An explosive device detonated on the steps of the home of an employee of the Swedish prison service early Tuesday morning in what is being described as a threat against the man’s family.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 10
Sweden's consumer watchdog has criticised 15 small house builders for unfair contract terms, the agency announced on Tuesday.
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Politics: 26 Dec 10
Two offices that often criticise Swedish agencies for long wait times have their own problems with efficiency.
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National: 17 Dec 10
A 52-year-old man has been deported to the wrong country after Sweden rejected his application for asylum.
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National: 9 Dec 10
The state of Swedish train operator SJ's vehicles are worse this winter than last year, according to CEO Jan Forsberg.
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Society: 3 Dec 10
Nordic hotel chain First Hotels has been slammed by the Swedish advertising ombudsman for an internet ad campaign featuring scantily-clad employees and sexual innuendo.
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Business & Money: 1 Dec 10
The Swedish consumer ombudsman has won a case against L'Oréal Sweden, which means that firm has to provide proof in order to claim in advertising that its face creams can reduce or remove wrinkles.
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National: 1 Dec 10
The Swedish government has launched a "sweeping" reform of integration policy, shifting the main responsibility for immigrant "establishment" in the country on the Public Employment Service.
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National: 1 Dec 10
Banning a student from class for wearing a headscarf is a violation of Sweden’s anti-discrimination laws, the country’s Equality Ombudsman has ruled.
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National: 19 Nov 10
A 14-year-old wheelchair-bound boy wanted to take the train from Sundsvall to Uppsala to visit his sister, but he was told he would be unable to get off the train as it "would take too long".
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Society: 18 Nov 10
A boy in western Sweden is to be compensated after enduring years of racially-motivated bullying, Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman has ruled.
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Business & Money: 16 Nov 10
Top Swedish IT companies are facilitating the disappearance of Swedish jobs by abusing work permits which allow them to bring skilled foreign workers into the country, a Swedish union has complained.
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Business & Money: 9 Nov 10
Sweden's unions are furious at how the country's migration minister has reacted to revelations about abuses related to a new law on labour migration.
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Business & Money: 1 Nov 10
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority has put over 500 fake stockbrokers and other swindlers on its warning list so far this year, a significantly higher number than in the whole of 2009.
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National: 29 Oct 10
A special police unit in Stockholm combating share scams was closed last week by the chief safety ombudsman due to a large influx of cases.
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National: 21 Oct 10
The Migration Board is putting more pressure on Sweden's municipalities to help it cope with a major shortage of places to house refugee children.
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Society: 7 Oct 10
With actor Daniel Craig in Sweden for the filming of the Hollywood remake of Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", a Stockholm resident has lodged a complaint due to restricted access on her street.
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Science & Technology: 30 Sep 10
A landmark court ruling in which four women showed that Sweden’s National Social Insurance Agency discriminated against them by denying them sick benefits during their pregnancies has been upheld on appeal.
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National: 29 Sep 10
Human rights group Amnesty has reported the Swedish border police to the Parliamentary Ombudsman over the deportation in February of 30 Roma, who were deposited on the Öresund Bridge.
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Society: 27 Sep 10
Ladies Night, a popular cabaret show which has just celebrated its fifth year in Sweden, has been reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman by a man denied tickets on the grounds of his gender.
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National: 14 Sep 10
A couple from Linköping in central Sweden who were marooned in Brussels after Ryanair cancelled their flight home will have their case heard by Sweden’s highest court.
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Politics: 11 Sep 10
The Social Democrats have called for new legislation to prevent local governments from selling public assets at below-market prices.
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Education: 6 Sep 10
A student wearing the niqab has begun attending a teacher training course in Stockholm, more than one and a half years after another woman reported a school that would not allow her to wear the headscarf in class.
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Society: 2 Sep 10
Airlines Ryanair and Norwegian can continue to charge fees to customers who purchase airline tickets with bank cards, despite new Swedish regulations forbidding the practice.
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Politics: 4 Aug 10
Sweden’s schools and universities should be allowed to ban students and teachers from wearing face veils, education minister and Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund has said.
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Society: 31 Jul 10
A 29-year-old woman is to receive 100,000 kronor ($14,000) in damages after reaching an out of court settlement with a store in western Sweden which cited her pregnancy as grounds for not offering her a permanent job.
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Politics: 30 Jul 10
A truth commission is one of the proposals the Delegation for Romani Affairs delivered to cabinet minister Nyamko Sabuni on Friday.
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Education: 26 Jul 10
A 13-year-old female student has submitted a complaint to the Discrimination Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO), charging that a school refused to enroll her because of her Arabic-sounding name.
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Society: 22 Jul 10
A Swedish lesbian couple who wanted a mortgage were told by a bank clerk that they should change their lifestyle and think about living apart.
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Politics: 16 Jul 10
Aftonbladet would probably lose a libel case over its allegations that former minister Sven Otto Littorin used a prostitute, Sweden’s former press ombudsman has said.
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Education: 8 Jul 10
Complaints to the Office of the Children and School Pupils Ombudsman have increased sharply, the Swedish Schools Inspectorate reported on Thursday.
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Society: 2 Jul 10
The Church of Sweden has reacted angrily to a company offering a fast-track SMS service for those wishing to resign their membership.
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National: 26 Jun 10
The City of Stockholm is to pay 35,000 kronor ($4,500) in compensation to a woman who was forced to leave a municipal training course for wearing a long headscarf.
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Business & Money: 10 Jun 10
Sweden's government has proposed placing tighter requirements on SMS-loan companies to carry out credit checks.
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National: 24 May 10
Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, held in Poland in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from Auschwitz, has reported the tax agency for denying him protected identity, arguing that he is being victimized.
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National: 21 May 10
A Swedish appeals court has ruled that a Norrköping hotel was guilty of discriminating against a guest who was participating at a conference on ethnic discrimination at the time.
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Society: 12 May 10
A care assistant from northern Sweden has reported her employers after they allegedly fired her for her religious beliefs.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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