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The new Swedish National Human Rights Institution: Key Links

Background Information

What are National Human Rights Institutions?

Our work with National Human Rights Institutions

The new Swedish National Human Rights Institution

The Swedish National Institute for Human Rights website (Swedish, with some information available in other languages)

 

Events

Webinar 10 June 2021: The New Swedish NHRI – What it is, What it Does & The Way Forward

Webinar 6 October 2021: The New Swedish NHRI – How Will it Work with Other Authorities?

 

Official Documentation

Government Proposal, 2019 (Swedish)

Government Proposition, 2021  (Swedish)

Decision to appoint an Inquiry Chair, 2021 (Swedish)

Report of the Constitutional Committee, 2021 (Swedish)

 

Feedback on the 2019 Government Proposal

Swedish Civil Society Network Opinion (Swedish)

European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) Comments

 

Other Relevant Swedish Authorities

The Equality Ombudsman [Diskrimineringsombudsmannen]

The Parliamentary Ombudsman [Justitieombudsmannen]

The Gender Equality Agency [Jämställdhetsmyndigheten]

 

International Standards

Principles relating to the status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles), 1993

Principles on the relationship between National Human Rights Institutions and Parliaments (The Belgrade Principles), 2012

 

NHRI Networks

Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)

European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI)

Contact

Stora Gråbrödersgatan 17 B
P.O. Box 1155
SE-221 05 Lund, Sweden

Mail: info@rwi.lu.se
Phone +46 46 222 12 00

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The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is named after Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II.

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