All Articles on Sweden
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Views Julian Assange is A Political Prisoner Who Has Exposed Government Crimes and Atrocities Julian Assange is a political prisoner. He has never been charged with a crime. Everyone who recognizes his name should know this, and if they don’t it is only because the largest media outlets have misreported or not reported the basic facts of his detention. This in itself is a searing indictment... Read more |
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News Eight Countries Join Global Fight Against Trump's Anti-Abortion Move Belgium, Canada, Cape Verde, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden join Netherlands' effort, launched in response to "global gag rule" Read more |
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News What's the 'Goodest' Country? Hint: It's Not the US A 'good country,' according to the index, is one 'that contributes to the greater good of humanity.' Read more |
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News 500 Scholars, Activists, and Nobel Laureates Call on UK and Sweden to Free Assange Open letter condemns governments for ignoring United Nations ruling on arbitrary detention of Wikileaks' founder Read more |
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Views "We Are Not Denmark": Hillary Clinton and Liberal American Exceptionalism Several months removed, it now seems clear that the Democratic debate on October 13 contained an illuminating moment that has come to embody the 2016 Democratic Primary and the key differences between its two candidates. Confronting Bernie Sanders’s insistence that the United States has much to... Read more |
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News Fortress Europe Looms as EU Countries Implement Heightened Border Controls Do new border checks in Sweden and Denmark mean landmark Schengen Zone is dead? Read more |
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News After Five Years of Legal Limbo, Sweden Agrees to Question Assange in London Swedish authorities reach deal with Ecuador to interview WikiLeaks founder in embassy where he has asylum Read more |
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Views We Can Learn a Lot from Dancing Swedish Tampons “We hope to normalize the subject and start a discussion about menstruation…it should be something we can talk about, both girls and boys.” These are the words of Petter Bragée, the Head of Programming for Children and Youth at the Malmö offices of Sweden’s national public service broadcaster, SVT... Read more |
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News Strong Words, But Little Action at Arctic Summit While participants emphasised engagement from affected communities, the summit itself did not manifest engagement with those communities Read more |
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News Swedish Dads Told to Take Three Months Paternity Leave Sweden is planning to introduce a third month of paid parental leave reserved for fathers as of 2016, in a bid to further increase gender equality, the country’s government has just announced. The country's Left Party is hoping for more individualized paid time off for new parents, according to... Read more |