Sweden - 2012
Does the national law cover all grounds of discrimination as in the International Conventions and EU law or additional discrimination grounds?
- Code:
- RED3
- Key Area:
- Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Racism, Discrimination
| Short Answer |
Yes. |
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| Qualitative Info |
Directive 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC are now implemented mainly by the new Discrimination Act. To a large extent, Swedish law is in conformity with the Directives and, especially as regards disability, religion and other belief as well as sexual orientation, domestic law goes beyond the requirements of the Directives. The government is of the opinion that protection against discrimination, in principle, should be as harmonised as possible regardless of the protected group. This harmonisation means that Sweden in several ways goes beyond the requirements of the directives. The Discrimination Act (Swedish Code of Statutes 2008:567), covers:
– sex
– transgender identity or expression – ethnic origin – religion or other belief – disability – sexual orientation – age Sweden has not ratified Protocol 12 to the ECHR which covers nationality. Source:The Swedish government, http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c6/11/80/10/4bb17aff.pdf (accessed 2011-12-20)
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Asylum seekers, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Persons with disability, Africans/black people, National minorities | |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Nationalism, Homophobia, On grounds of disability, On grounds of other belief | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Anti-discrimination | |
| External Url | http://www.do.se/Documents/pdf/new_discrimination_law.pdf | |
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