Sweden

Each year, Human Rights Watch publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries. On this page, you can find information about Human Rights Watch research on Sweden.

In September 2015, Human Rights Watch opened the office of its Sweden affiliate to intensify its advocacy on key human rights issues both in Sweden and around the world, and to increase support for the work of Human Rights Watch worldwide. To learn more about the activities of the Stockholm office, please click here.

  • Europe/Central Asia

    In September 2015, Marem Aliyeva disappeared from her home in southern Russia. She had called the police multiple times to report that her husband was beating her, but to no avail. “We don’t get involved in domestic matters,” the police told her. On the day she disappeared, Marem called her older sister in tears, terrified because her husband threatened to punish her for reporting him. When the sister arrived at Marem’s house, she found only Marem’s young children, alone and crying. Marem disappeared without a trace. She was one of 14,000 Russian women every year who fall victim to deadly violence at the hands of their partner.

    Commentary

    The Erosion of Human Rights Protection Systems

  • Internet Freedom

    This week, the European Union’s top court once again found that blanket data retention mandates are hostile to privacy and democratic freedoms, and incompatible with EU law. Such mandates require service providers to store data on all of the provider’s users for a set period.  The decision responds to challenges to sweeping data retention laws in the UK and Sweden to invalidate the laws after the court previously struck down an EU-wide data retention law in 2014.

    Dispatches

    Europe’s Court Repudiates Blanket Data Retention—Again

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