Indicator history

In Sweden, civil society, including migrants representing their organisations are often called upon in the process of drafting policies on human right's, anti-discrimination, anti-racism. In the drafting of Sweden's third Action Plan on Human Right's, The Government sought an open and transparent process, involving government agencies, civil society and other stakeholders at an early stage.  Review dialogues with NGO's are often part of implementing policies in Sweden. The Government’s human rights website  http://www.manskligarattigheter.se has been used to inform and consult stakeholders. The coordinating ministries have also held open-ended meetings with NGO's to inform about and collect views on the process.

The Swedish Forum for Human Rights is a civil society forum for human rights and a meeting place for politicians, students, public officials, activists and researchers. It is the largest human rights event in the Nordic countries, gathering more than 1 500 participants each year.  Organisations of migrants are also part of this forum. 

The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs administers a forum for the Government and civil society organisations. This task includes regularly holding the Forum for civil society conference which also includes migrant organisations.

There are institutionalised fora for communication and regular interaction between minority and majority Communities. One such forum is the Government initiated web platform dialogvärdegrund.nu that is a tool to help organizations in Sweden to work with dialogue on democracy and human rights. The web platform is part of the initiative the government started in 2008 to strengthen the relation between democracy and human rights through dialogue as a method.[1]