The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development has announced that Sweden has pledged funds to help avert a potential food crisis in some of the world’s most vulnerable rural communities in the wake of COVID-19.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the treatment of Julian Assange appears to contravene the principles of necessity and proportionality.
The World Medical Association has again appealed to the Iranian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally an Iranian-born Swedish resident specialist in emergency medicine, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced to death for the charge of “corruption on earth”.
It is unusual for politicians to admit that a policy they believed in and helped implement was not just wrong, but actually did harm. It is even more unusual for them to make a very public apology. But this is what the Swedish Green Party did last month, on the policy of Free Schools. In a national newspaper the party said, "Forgive us, our policy led our schools astray".
Amnesty has called on the Swedish authorities for confirmation that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the USA if he travels to Sweden to face sexual assault charges.
Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd, has reminded Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling whom he married recently, that they are not indispensable.