Human rights
Human rights apply to everyone, always and everywhere. The City of Stockholm’s operations work in different ways to respect human rights.
In practice, the City’s operations work on a daily basis with Sweden’s convention commitments. These are enacted in areas such as citizens’ advice bureaus, social services, schools and elderly care.
Certain groups, such as children, people with disabilities and national minorities, also have special rights taken into consideration in the City’s operations.
How the City works with national minorities
The city’s work to realise human rights will focus on developing effective methods and taking a systematic approach. This way, human rights become a natural part of how each relevant service ensures quality in its work.
Organisation
The City Executive Office is responsible for directing, leading and coordinating the City’s work on human rights, and is responsible for the policy documents.
The City of Stockholm has three ombudsmen:
- Ombudsman for Children
- Ombudsman for the Disabled
- Ombudsman for the Elderly
Policy documents
The annual budget, adopted by the City Council, is the overriding governing document for all the City’s operations. Supplementary policy documents establish and clarify how the City’s operations are to operate and how they should be run.
Most of these policy documents, including the City’s programme for human rights and a number of other programmes, policies and action plans relevant to human rights, are only available in Swedish.