• EU: Provide Protection for Syrian Refugees
    Dec 23, 2012
    The European Union and its member states should do more to help the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Europe as the Syrian crisis worsens and winter sets in.
  • EU: Defer Hasty Returns of Migrant Children
    Jun 4, 2010
    The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council conclusions on unaccompanied migrant children focus too much on how to send them back to their countries of origin and too little on how to guarantee their safety. The conclusions were adopted on June 3, 2010.
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  • EU: Provide Protection for Syrian Refugees
    Dec 23, 2012
    The European Union and its member states should do more to help the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach Europe as the Syrian crisis worsens and winter sets in.
  • Sweden: Letter to the Prime Minister Regarding Transgender Law
    Jan 14, 2012
  • Swedish Government Should Stay out of its Citizens’ Underwear
    Jan 10, 2012
    Swedish citizens would not want their government to mess around in their underwear. You would assume all hell would break loose if the government would tell them: you won’t get a new passport or other identification document unless you have become irreversibly infertile.
  • Letter to Swedish Foreign Minister on Camp Ashraf in Iraq
    Dec 15, 2011
    We are writing to you before the December 31 announced closure of Camp Ashraf (also known as Camp New Iraq) to urge the government of Sweden to take proactive steps to help prevent the stand-off between the Iraqi government and the leadership of the Mohjahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from deteriorating further at a critical moment in Iraq’s precarious transition to democratic rule.
  • EU: Defer Hasty Returns of Migrant Children
    Jun 4, 2010
    The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council conclusions on unaccompanied migrant children focus too much on how to send them back to their countries of origin and too little on how to guarantee their safety. The conclusions were adopted on June 3, 2010.
  • Letter to South African and European Union Governments in Advance of EU-South Africa Summit
    Aug 19, 2009
    Human Rights Watch writes to Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South African minister of international relations and cooperation, and Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish foreign minister, concerning the September 11, 2009 European Union-South Africa summit.
  • Letter to Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt Regarding the Mineral Trade and Armed Conflict in Eastern DR Congo
    Jul 21, 2009
    A group of international non-governmental organizations calls on the European Union to take the lead in initiating stronger international action to break the links between the mineral trade and the continuing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • NGO support letter to the Swedish Migration Board on the Adel Akim case
    Jan 25, 2008
    A group of nongovernmental organizations write in support of the application of Adel Abdul Hakim for a residence permit on humanitarian grounds in Sweden. The organizations respectfully request that the Swedish Migration Board evaluate the totality of the circumstances surrounding Mr. Hakim’s claim for resettlement and consider that the rights of recognized refugees, the right to family reunification, and the prohibition against torture so clearly implicated in his case strongly favor a positive decision on his application.
  • European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity
    Feb 11, 2007
    The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition
    Nov 9, 2006
    The United Nations’ ruling that Sweden violated the global torture ban in its involvement in the CIA transfer of an asylum seeker to Egypt is an important step toward establishing accountability for European governments complicit in illegal US renditions, Human Rights Watch said today.
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