Greater legal protection for trans people on the way in Sweden
Posted: 18 May 2018
There are two distinct legal processes going on, in relation to hate crime and hate speech laws respectively.
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Swedish Parliament has decided to pay compensation for forced sterilisation of trans people
Posted: 22 March 2018
On 21 March 2018, the Swedish Parliament took a historic decision that trans people who were forcibly sterilised (between 1972 and 2013) should be paid compensation.
Swedish law proposals on legal gender recognition and gender reassignment treatment
Posted: 10 February 2015
The Swedish government tabled in January two law proposals on legal gender recognition and gender reassignment treatment.
Important judgment in hate speech case by the European Court of Human Rights
Posted: 9 February 2012
The European Court of Human Rights says that criminal conviction for distributing leaflets offensive to homosexuals was not contrary to freedom of expression
Sweden violated human rights by compulsory isolating HIV positive person
Posted: 29 January 2005
On 25 January 2005, the ECHR found Sweden guilty of violating Article 5 § 1 of the European Convention on HR for compulsory isolating an HIV positive person.
