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    • +/-Dec 18 2008Sweden stops budget support to RwandaBy:
      Sweden has stopped the payment of budget support to Rwanda after a UN report concluded that Rwanda has aided rebel groups in eastern Congo, where there is an armed conflict. "Sweden is taking the UN report very seriously and has stopped the payment of budget support to Rwanda," says Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson.
    • +/-Dec 10 2008Sixty years of human rightsBy:
      Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption and announcement by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. The Government's commemoration of the Universal Declaration will take place in the Chamber of the Riksdag on 10 December. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will be present.
    • +/-Dec 6 2008Doha trade negotiations closer to completionBy:
      Revised negotiating documents on agriculture and industrial goods, which could move the Doha round of global trade negotiations closer to completion, have been published today.
    • +/-Dec 3 2008Trade Ministers to meet in GenevaBy:
      Possible breakthrough in WTO-negotiations?
    • +/-Dec 2 2008New policy for Sweden's international HIV/AIDS effortsBy:
      Sweden is now intensifying its efforts in the international fight against HIV and AIDS. This is necessary since 33 million people around the world still live with HIV, more than a quarter of a century after the virus was discovered.
    • +/-Dec 1 2008Special session of the Human rights CouncilBy:
      Sweden has long been increasingly concerned with the serious Human rights situation in the DRC, especially in its Eastern regions. It is therefore welcome that also the UN Human righs Council, HRC, addresses the issue. The urgency of the situation clearly warrants a special session. Together with other partners in the European Union, Sweden has drafted a resolution on which action is planned today, lunchtime.
    • +/-Nov 11 2008The Gap between pledges and human rights in realityBy:
      The Rights Work! Conference was inaugurated by the Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Nyamko Sabuni and ended by the Minister for Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson.
    • +/-Nov 5 2008International Conference on Systematic Work for Human RightsBy:
      Sweden will host an International Conference on Systematic Work for Human Rights in Stockholm on 6-7 November. Among those attending the conference will be Minister for Integration and Gender Equality Nyamko Sabuni, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson and Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg. Some 200 people from around 70 countries will attend the conference.
    • +/-Oct 24 2008United Nations Day By:
      On Friday 24 October, United Nations Day is celebrated in Sweden and all over the world.
    • +/-Sep 10 2008The UN Human Rights CouncilBy:
      The UN Human Rights Council, HRC, opened its ninth meeting on September 8 and will go on till September 24.
    • +/-May 23 2008New drafts improve chances for broad world trade agreementBy:
      Negotiations on a new world trade agreement have entered the most intensive phase since the discussions - called the Doha Round - began in 2001.
    • +/-May 12 2008Swedish candidates for international jobsBy:
      The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affaires is establishing a database with CV's of Swedes interested in working in international organisations.
    • +/-Apr 3 2008Eight priorities in the work for human rightsBy:
      A policy for freedom and against oppression - these are the watchwords of the Government's priorities in the work for human rights in Swedish foreign policy. This is made clear in the communication presented to the Riksdag on 18 March.
    • +/-Mar 27 2008Human Rights a key issue in Swedish foreign policyBy:
      "Human rights are indivisible and apply to everyone. This year we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and I want to underline the importance that this Government attaches to a coherent policy for freedom and against oppression," Today, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson presented the Government's communication to the Riksdag on Human Rights in Swedish Foreign Policy and Sweden's country reports on human rights.
    • +/-Mar 26 2008Internships and vacanciesBy:
      Internships and vacancies
    • +/-Mar 18 2008UN High Commissioner for Refugees to StockholmBy:
      António Guterres meet with Carl Bildt and Gunilla Carlsson
    • +/-Mar 4 2008State Secretary for Foreign Affairs to address UN Human Rights Council in GenevaBy:
      The UN Human Rights Council is meeting from 3 to 28 March in Geneva. On Wednesday 5 March State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Frank Belfrage will participate in the annual high-level meeting. Mr Belfrage will give Sweden's main address in which he will set forth Sweden's view of the Council and of human rights work around the world. Also on Wednesday, the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs will address the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
    • +/-Jan 19 2008High Commissioner Louise Arbour's Stockholm visitBy:
      Tuesday 15 January, Nyamko Sabuni met with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour. Their talks focussed mainly on the Swedish National Action Plan for Human Rights and its ongoing implementation. During her Stockholm visit, Ms Arbour also met with Carl Bildt and Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson.
    • +/-Jan 15 2008Louise Arbour to visit StockholmBy:
      The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, will visit Stockholm on 14-15 January. Ms Arbour will meet Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson and Minister for Integration and Gender Equality Nyamko Sabuni. Ms Arbour was previously a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also been Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia.
    • +/-Dec 11 20076th session of the Human Rights Council By:
      The Human Rights Council hold the second part of its sixth session from 10 to 14 December
    • +/-Nov 28 200730th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red CrescentBy:
      A few years ago the Swedish Delegation for International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs decided to examine international humanitarian law from a gender perspective. However, ‘gender aspects’ were often synonymous with women’s aspects. Men were seldom included except as analysed within their traditional roles. Believing there was a need to deepen the discussion and widen the important work that had been done with respect to women and war, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs hosted an informal expert meeting to analyse the matter, in cooperation with the Swedish National Defence College, the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne University in Australia and the Folke Bernadotte Academy. The result of this Expert Meeting was presented at a so-called Side Event, organised by the Government of Sweden, at the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva on Tuesday 27th November. Dr. Marie Jacobsson, Principal Legal Adviser to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Cecilia Hellman, Legal Adviser, Swedish Defence College and Professor Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza, University of Warsaw, Poland and Member of the International Fact-Finding Commission, presented the report and led the discussion.
    • +/-Oct 10 2007Sweden offers CHF356,000 to the WTO development programmesBy:
      Sweden has donated CHF356,000 (about SEK2 million) to the WTO Trade Facilitation Needs Assessment Trust Fund, which makes it the third largest contributor to this Fund.
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