Important Issues

A key duty of the Ombudsman for Children is to participate in the public debate, promote public interests regarding key issues, and influence the attitudes of decision-makers and the public in general.

Article and Press Release on annual report 2008:

Press Release: 'Sweden rules' 2008 (30 KB)   

Article: 'Every other Swedish pupil has experienced collective punishment' 2008 (34 KB)   

Some of the Ombudsman for Children's speeches and statements as PDF files:

Statement of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children, UN-meeting New York 2007. The Children´s Ombudsman in Sweden, is one of the institutions behind the statement: Statement UN-meeting New York 2007 (30 KB) 

'Juvenile Justice', 2006 (18 KB)  

'Corporal Punishment of Children' 2006 (32 KB)  

'Health Care' 2006 (48 KB) 

'Young People’s Views on Alcohol, Narcotics and Tobacco', 2005 (32 KB)