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Civil Rights Defenders (Formerly the Swedish Helsinki Committee [5]) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Stockholm, Sweden, that does human rights work with a focus on civil and political rights. [6]
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Rocked by a wave of gang violence, Sweden is rushing to rewrite laws long seen as the hallmark of its open society, but critics fear it is going too far, too fast and threatening the rule of law ...
The European Convention on Human Rights (EHCR) which was incorporated into Swedish domestic law from 1 January 1995 forms part of Sweden's protection of rights and freedoms. Sweden is a "dualist state" [2] in its adoption of International Law such as the ECHR thereby requiring a special act by the Swedish government for treaties and conventions ...
The Tidö Agreement (Swedish: Tidöavtalet) is a political agreement of Riksdag parties from the right-wing bloc (Sweden Democrats, Moderate Party, Christian Democrats and Liberals) for appointing Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Party as Prime Minister of Sweden and the Kristersson cabinet as the Government of Sweden after the 2022 Swedish general election.
In 1992, a British Helsinki Human Rights Group was established in the UK, but this group was always completely independent of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. The UK's official representative in the IHF is the British Helsinki Subcommittee of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, established in 1976.
He then founded the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in 1982 and was its Chairman from 1992 to 2004. Nagler also co-founded the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights in 1984 and was its first Secretary General in Vienna from 1984 to 1992. [5] [6] He was Honorary President of the Civil Rights Defenders. [7]
[9] Human rights NGO Civil Rights Defenders stated that goal of Paludan's tour was to "spread hatred toward Muslims and immigrants and systematically provoke these groups" and called for the Swedish government to "apply the legislation on hate speech in a way that is in line with international documents on human rights". [31]