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In search of Sweden’s lost empathy

We finished 2025, a year full of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, with the right-wing Sweden Democrats still ...
A former darling of the progressive left in Sweden turned the 2015 refugee crisis into a lucrative business, exposing a "wild west" approach to housing people who had fled wars and persecution. The ...
Sweden’s deputy prime minister apologized for making an analogy between the migrant refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and Auschwitz. Asa Romson of the Green Party apologized on Monday for the ...
On October 14, the Swedish government announced it was nominating the CEO of IKEA, Jesper Brodin, as its candidate for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Less than a month later, ...
Sweden, a favourite destination for refugees flooding into Europe, can no longer house all those arriving and many will have to find their own accommodation, the country's migration agency said on ...
STOCKHOLM — While in power, Sweden’s Moderate party urged voters to “open their hearts” to the waves of refugees flowing out of the world’s trouble spots. A year later — and now in opposition — the ...
On June 20 we recognized World Refugee Day – a day set aside every year to remember vulnerable people who have fled their country out of fear of further persecution if they were to return. Who are the ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 12 (UNHCR) - As a Swedish parliamentarian, Hanif Bali is particularly interested in the welfare of unaccompanied refugee children in his adopted homeland. It's an issue that ...