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UPR 38th session - Statement by Sweden in the review of Estonia

04 May 2021

Delivered by:H.E. Ms Anna Jardfelt, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the UN in Geneva

President,
Sweden commends Estonia’s progress in the implementation of the previous UPR recommendations and the overall human rights situation. We encourage further efforts to meet challenges such as discrimination.

Sweden would like to make the following recommendations:

  1. Amend the anti-discrimination law to provide equal protection on all grounds for discrimination, by extending the Equal Treatment Act to other fields than employment.
  2. Amend the electoral law to ensure that disenfranchisement of persons in prison can only be imposed subject to an individual assessment.

Ensure the equal rights of same sex-couples in line with the Registered Partnership Act of 2016 by amending secondary laws or the Family Law Act.

Thank you.

Last updated 03 May 2021, 11.52 AM

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