UPR Info

Ensure that counter-terrorism measures are taken in a way that protects fundamental human rights, including the right to equality

Ensure that its laws and practices against terrorism are fully compatible with international human rights standards, including the right to liberty and security

Establish a dedicated statelessness determination procedure to identify stateless persons within the territory and facilitate their protection, particularly regarding stateless children

Further strengthen efforts in helping refugees, asylum seekers and, most importantly, stateless persons, especially children

Ensure that asylum seekers and refugees enjoy their human rights, including the right to family reunification

Ensure that all asylum seekers have access to fair and effective asylum procedures

Ensure that its national legislation and practice effectively protect the principle of non-refoulement

Ensure that policies and practices related to the return and expulsion of asylum seekers respect the principle of non-refoulement

Take the necessary measures to ensure that national policies and practices on migration and asylum grant sufficient guarantees for the respect of the principle of non-refoulement

Effectively apply the principle of non-refoulement when there is risk to life, liberty or personal integrity of the asylum seeker, especially in cases of children, girls and adolescents, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons

Defend the principle of non-refoulement by taking more effective measures to properly protect the rights of asylum seekers to leave their current religion or to change their religion for another, and to run from the significant risks of persecution in their countries of origin

Ensure the protection of child asylum seekers, including by maintaining such protection once they reach the age of majority, in accordance with the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee

Ensure full compliance with the Swedish Aliens Act with regard to the return of unaccompanied children

Prohibit the detention of children for immigration-related purposes, irrespective of their status or that of their parents, and consider the application of alternative measures to detention

Continue promoting the implementation of integration policies of migrants

Continue to undertake measures to combat discrimination and segregation and promote integration of newly arrived immigrants

Continue and enhance the measures with the view to promoting integration in working and social life of immigrants and of persons living in vulnerable situations

Strengthen efforts to ensure the effective integration of migrants, especially migrant children

Stop policies and measures that violate the rights of migrants and refugees

Continue measures to protect the rights of persons with psychological disabilities by providing appropriate access and support in both health and social services

Continue making efforts to guarantee full respect of the rights of people with disabilities, including patients in psychiatric institutions, by also ensuring that treatments are provided on the basis of free and informed consent, unless exceptional circumstances require otherwise

Increase the funding for accessibility for persons with disabilities

Redouble efforts to achieve the target set in constructing stations and bus stops for persons with disabilities

Continue the efforts in employing persons with disabilities in both government agencies and the private sector

Continue to pursue relevant legislative and policy measures and allocate adequate resources for establishing opportunities for every child with disabilities to reach the highest possible level of education

Take steps to provide education for children with disabilities

Further improve equal access of persons with disabilities to employment, education, health care as well as justice and governmental services

Strengthen the measures taken to improve equal access of persons with disabilities to employment, education, health care, justice and government services, without any discrimination