A new documentary about a Swedish artist who was assaulted by her partner, a well-known Swedish actor, has stirred debate about violence against women in the Nordic country.
New statistics show the impact Sweden's housing crisis is having on women fleeing domestic violence, who are being forced to spend longer and longer living at women’s shelters.
Sweden's foreign minister Margot Wallström has called a recent Russian legal change which decriminalized some forms of domestic violence "problematic", after meeting with human rights organizations in Moscow.
A new EU review of violence against women has revealed that one in three European women has been assaulted, and one in twenty has been raped, with the Scandinavian countries at the top of the league tables.
Women in need of shelter in Gothenburg are being left stranded in what is supposed to be temporary housing, as the lack of rental properties and high demand strain domestic-violence refuges.
Of the 80,000 reported cases of domestic violence in relationships from 2008 to 2012 only 17,000 were cleared up, according to a new report, which details significant variations among police forces across Sweden.
Battered women shouldn't have to build a new life alone, the Swedish police said on Friday as they proposed victims be assigned a personal "pilot" to help them navigate out of the quagmire. More than 200 women have been killed by a partner in Sweden in the past four years.
Malmö's Gustaf Adolf square was the scene of an unusual and provocative demonstration on Saturday as 100 'bruised and battered' women sought to draw attention to the problem of violence against women.
A 68-year-old man was detained by police on Saturday on suspicion of murdering his wife and dumping her body in a lake near Loftahammar in south-eastern Sweden. The man denies the offence.
