An advocacy group in Sweden has called for national guidelines on issuing breast implants to transgender women, claiming they can save countless lives.
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Breast implants ‘prevent transgender suicides’
Posted on 25 January 2012.
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Danish unions in action against Icelandic-owned airline
Posted on 13 January 2012.
The Danish flight crews’ union has decided to assist the country’s federation of labour unions in its action against Primera Air, which is a Danish charter airline under Icelandic ownership. The federation of unions aims to begin its campaign on 1st February.
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Hospital staff: abused women to blame
Posted on 17 December 2011.
A third of the staff members working in the largest hospital accident and emergency department in Sweden believe women are to blame if they are physically abused by their partners. The study, which questioned 217 medical personnel working at Stockholm South General Hospital (Södersjukhuset), also revealed that one-in-ten do not believe it is their responsibility [...]
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Former Iceland FM takes up Afghanistan UN job
Posted on 17 October 2011.
Iceland’s former foreign minister, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is on her way to Afghanistan to take up a United Nations position.
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Iceland tops Newsweek list of best countries for women
Posted on 19 September 2011.
A new feature in the magazine Newsweek concludes that the best place in the world to be a woman is Iceland.
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Thousands join Finnish ‘SlutWalk’
Posted on 11 August 2011.
Thousands of people took part in the so-called ‘SlutWalk’ at the weekend in Helsinki, a feminist march aimed at removing the way women dress from the debate about sexual assault.
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Young Swedes ‘pick dictatorship over democracy’
Posted on 15 June 2011.
More than a quarter of young Swedes would favour dictatorship over democracy, according to a new study.
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Polish women lose trafficking compensation
Posted on 12 June 2011.
A woman who forced four Polish women to shoplift and do housework for her without payment has had her sentence reduced, after a Swedish court acquitted her of trafficking.
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