Swedish minorities face widespread discrimination including a lack of education in their mother tongues, Sweden's ombudsman against ethnic discrimination said on Friday.
The Sami people of northern Sweden are routinely subjected to discrimination and their rights disregarded, a new report from the Ombudsman against ethnic discrimination (DO) shows.
You can live in Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö your whole life and still know almost nothing about the Sami, the indigenous people of Sweden. One reason for this is that the Sami don’t make much of a bleep on the cultural radar screen.
The Sweden Democrats have called for an end to privileges enjoyed by Sami reindeer herders at their annual party congress which began in Karlstad on Friday.
Two Sami reindeer herders were narrowly missed by a falling space rocket launched from the Esrange space station in northern Sweden in the beginning of April. Saarivuoma Sami village has demanded that safety be improved.
Two Sami villages in northern Sweden have been denied compensation from the state-owned mining company LKAB for the time village representatives spent on planning for the relocation of Kiruna.
The Sami people of northern Sweden celebrate their national day on February 6th and Lappland is a hive of activity getting ready for the party of the year. Reindeer shoes are being made, handicrafts sculpted and party frocks designed and sewn up.
Irate reindeer herders from Sweden's indigenous Sami population took to the streets of Stockholm on Friday to protest against Norway's alleged attempts to force the animals from their traditional pastures.
An unresolved conflict between Sweden and Norway has led to a tense situation on the border between the countries in the northern territories of Lapland. Reindeer herders from Sweden are refusing to move their animals after Norwegian authorities threatened to force the issue with the aid of a helicopter.
Jaw bones taken from the skulls of Sami people have been discovered in a display case at a dental college in Umeå in northern Sweden. The human remains are part of an exhibit that also includes the jaws of bears, elk and rodents.
A documentary film accusing Sweden of genocide against its Sami and Roma populations has angered many Turkish television viewers and media commentators since going to air last week.
The Sami language, spoken by the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, is under threat and local dialects such as southern Sami and Luleå Sami are in danger of dying out completely. A government inquiry recommends a range of measures, including more tuition in the language and granting Sami official status in over 20 northern local councils.
The long-drawn out dispute over winter grazing grounds for the country's reindeer herds could be resolved before Christmas. That was the belief of the minister for Sami affairs, Ann-Christin Nykvist, as the fourth session of the Sami parliament opened in Östersund.
