A high school headteacher in Stockholm has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman after allegedly telling a girl complaining of rape that “you have to get used to it”. Read the full story
Posted on 19 November 2011.
A high school headteacher in Stockholm has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman after allegedly telling a girl complaining of rape that “you have to get used to it”. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 October 2011.
Amnesty International has criticised Finland for exporting weapons to Middle Eastern governments during the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 April 2011.
Human skeletons which were used for training purposes at a Swedish hospital could be given a proper burial after theories emerged that they were traded illegally. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 February 2011.
A Swedish taxi firm is being investigated for sexism after its CEO asked staff to indentify the company’s telephonists by their bare bottoms. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 February 2011.
A Danish journalist has been criticised after repeatedly referring to a transsexual woman as a man and using the phrase “freak show” in a programme about sex change operations. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 August 2010.
Two Israeli firms have been excluded from Norway’s USD 450 billion sovereign wealth fund for building Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Both the Africa Israel Investments holding firm and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus have been blacklisted by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 July 2010.
Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has promised to place greater scrutiny on the origin of its raw materials, after accusations that their phones help fund the war in Congo. According to online financial publication Taloussanomat, experts in Finland and the US suspect Nokia of using tin from mines which support Congolese rebel groups in the African country’s ongoing civil war. Read the full story
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Posted on 26 March 2010.
The Danish ethics Ethics council Council is charged with investigating cases of sexual abuse, leading a fact that has led Bishop Czeslaw Kozon to claim that he therefore has no obligation to report any such cases to police. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 January 2010.
Suspicions have arisen around hospital culture in Sweden after it was revealed that several medical students had participated in a gynaecological examination without the woman’s consent. Read the full story
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Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
Explore Vatnajökull and Jökulsárlón in Iceland with Glacier Lagoon tour
Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold”
