Ulrika Sundberg is a Swedish diplomat.[1] Her most recent appointment is Sweden's ambassador to Ireland and previously to Belgium (Sweden based) and Pakistan.[2][3][4]

In 2002 Sundberg wrote a paper entitled, "Durban: The Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance," in the International Review of Penal Law.[5] It was her report on conference on racism held in Durban, South Africa in 2000, and the problems confrerees had agreeing on a definition of discrimination. In 2005 Sundberg wrote a nineteen-page report, entitled, "Human Rights and Terrorism: Some Comments on the Work of United Nations Commission on Human Rights," in the International Review of Penal Law.[6]

In 2006 Sundberg took a lead role in Swedish efforts to have the World Bank to incorporate human rights standards into its lending.[1]

Sundberg had regular meetings with Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Minister of the Interior, when four Muslim Swedes, Mehdi Ghezali, Munir Awad, Safia Benaouda, and her two-year-old child, were captured and faced allegations that they had ties to terrorism.[2][3][4] The four were captured on August 28, 2009, and were released, without charge, on October 10, 2009.

References

  1. 1 2 "The World Bank takes on the Human Rights agenda". Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 10 October 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan". The Local. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Sweden: Pakistan has released arrested Swedes". Mlive. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Pakistan Swedes Freed". SR International. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Ulrika Sundberg (2002). "Durban: The Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance". 73 (1). International Review of Penal Law. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ Ulrika Sundberg (2005). "Human Rights and Terrorism: Some Comments on the Work of United Nations Commission on Human Rights". Vol. 76, no. 1. International Review of Penal Law. Retrieved 10 October 2009.

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