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HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 72. The Government Instrument contains a list of human rights and freedoms, some of which are considered "absolute" in the sense that they can only be restricted by an amendment to the Basic Law. Others may be restricted by other types of instruments, in particular ordinary laws. Absolute rights include: freedom of wor... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 75. The existence of a free press is one of the essential foundations of a free and democratic society. The Freedom of the Press Act, which is one of the four fundamental laws of Sweden, guarantees freedom of the press. It also governs the freedom of information which occupies a special place in the constitutional fram... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 81. The courts and tribunals play a crucial role in protecting the rights of persons in Sweden. The remedies provided by the judicial system are aimed at ensuring the protection of human rights. Disputes are decided by the ordinary courts, administrative courts and, to some extent, administrative authorities. Furthermo... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 82. The Instrument of Government obliges courts and tribunals, administrative authorities and other public bodies not to apply provisions contrary to the rules of a basic law or other higher law or adopted in deep disregard of the procedure laid down by law. It should be stressed in this regard that under the Instrumen... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 87. The Ombudsmen also ensure respect for human rights. Anyone who considers that he or a third party has been treated inappropriately or unjustly by a public authority or by a public official or local authority may | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 88. The Chancellor of Justice is also responsible for monitoring respect for human rights, for example, when he receives complaints and claims for compensation addressed to the State and decides on the compensation to be granted for the damage suffered. The Chancellor of Justice's Services was established in 1713. The ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 89. The Office of the Equality Ombudsman, a public body established in 2009, works to combat discrimination and to promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex, identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age. The Ombudsman is responsible for monitoring com... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 96. The Government ' s human rights policy is aimed at ensuring full compliance with Sweden ' s international human rights commitments and this new goal is the basis for the Government ' s efforts in the field of human rights at the national level and sheds light on the link between these efforts and Sweden ' s interna... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 104. The main aim of the national plan is to combat racism, similar forms of hostility and hate-motivated criminal acts in a strategic, effective and coherent manner in Sweden. According to the Government, five strategic areas are essential for achieving the objective of the plan:
· Strengthening knowledge, education a... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 107. The long-established democratic system and constitutional framework in Sweden guarantee the enjoyment of all rights, while the general system of social protection facilitates the effective exercise of a number of rights and allows the country to occupy a fairly high position in international comparisons of the gen... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | The Government is aware of its fundamental mission to ensure that measures are taken to promote all human rights at all levels of society (national, regional and local) and that all relevant actors have a good knowledge of human rights issues and that the various levels of the State work together; the Government intend... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 114. The new Education Act entered into force on 1 July 2011 and places greater emphasis on human rights as one of the fundamental values on which the school system is based. This Act and the national school curriculum provide that all persons working in pre-school and school establishments are obliged to promote respe... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 117. The Swedish Human Rights Forum is the forum for civil society debate in the field of human rights and is a meeting place for women and men in politics, students, public officials, activists and researchers. Its session is the largest human rights event in the Nordic countries. In 2016, it brought together some 5,0... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 121. The protection of human rights is one of the cornerstones of Sweden ' s foreign policy; the Government is committed to ensuring that human rights, democracy and the rule of law are integrated into all areas of foreign policy; it intends to adopt a coherent and results-oriented human rights-based approach; dialogue... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 122. The Government submitted two communications to the Riksdag in 2016 in this regard. The first, entitled "Human rights, democracy and the principles of the rule of law in Sweden's foreign policy" (communication from the Government 2016/17:62), focuses on the close links between these three elements and their interde... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 123. The Government attaches high priority to ensuring that international law, including international human rights law, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women, their ability to exercise all human rights, democracy and the rule of law, permeates the actions of the European Union, both within and outside t... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 127. The responsibility for the preparation of reports under the various United Nations human rights conventions is divided among the various ministerial departments on the basis of the subject matter concerned; reports with a fairly broad scope and covering a wide range of topics, several specialized ministries are in... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 132. The most ambitious initiative in recent years to ensure a non-discriminatory society is the Discrimination Act, which entered into force on 1 January 2009, which was mentioned in the presentation on the Equality Ombudsman in paragraphs 88 and 89. Under the Act, discrimination is in principle prohibited in all sect... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 133. The prohibition of discrimination set out in the Act is supplemented by rules on active measures, which are simply measures aimed at remedying the situation of employees and other persons collectively and not individually, and which are intended to act as a lever and promote the adoption of other measures to comba... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 138. The Government Instrument (see chap. II, sect. D above) provides that any public authority shall be exercised with respect for the equal value of all persons and for the liberty and dignity of the person. In 2011, amendments were made to the Constitution. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 140. The Swedish Penal Code contains two provisions directly relevant to contempt and discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religious belief or sexual orientation, one on agitation against national or ethnic groups and the other on unlawful discrimination; it also contains an express... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 141. The protection of the rights of the Sami indigenous people and other national minorities and the rights of other minorities such as migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are ongoing obligations, and close attention will be paid to these issues and the Government will continue to give full effect to the recommendat... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 142. The promotion of gender equality is one of the top priorities and must be an integral part of all relevant areas of action. Male violence against women is a particular priority and a major problem affecting society as a whole, women and men. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 145. The Government intends to put in place a sustainable migration policy that preserves the right of asylum and, in the context of controlled immigration, facilitates cross-border mobility, promotes the migration of workers based on needs, takes into account and exploits the effects of migration on development and de... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 147. The labour immigration system is under the control of employers and is demand-driven; it applies to migrant workers of all spheres of competence and at all levels. Migrants who are admitted enjoy fully and equally the same rights as Swedish nationals of the same level and can come with their families immediately. ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 149. The number of unaccompanied children applying for asylum in Sweden is problematic and municipalities are responsible for receiving them, appointing their legal guardians, housing them, attending and treating them, and the costs incurred by them are reimbursed by the central administration. Upon arrival, unaccompan... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 151. The aim of this policy is to ensure equal rights, obligations and opportunities for all regardless of ethnic and cultural origin, mainly through the introduction of general policy measures that are of general interest to the population as a whole and complemented by targeted support for the integration of newly ar... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 152. The main objective of the integration programme is to speed up the integration of newly arrived immigrants into working life and the community and to provide vocational support to all newly arrived immigrants in order to help them learn Swedish, to find a job to support them and to become familiar with the rights ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 153. The Government ' s regional growth policy is aimed at ensuring dynamic development in all regions of the country by improving local and regional competitiveness; it is based on the ability of the regions to take the necessary measures, but it also places obligations on the central government; one of its prerequisi... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 155. The Equality Ombudsman, whose website is www.do.se (see also paras. 87 and 88), is also responsible for raising awareness of discrimination and its prohibition and for disseminating knowledge and information on discrimination not only to potential perpetrators but also to potential victims of discrimination, provi... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | 156. The Swedish Ombudsman for Children, whose website is www.barn ombudsmannen.se, disseminates information on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Its main tasks are to participate in public debates, to raise public interest in key issues and to influence the attitudes of decision-makers and the public, and to ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2018-fr-parsed | The Living History Forum is a Swedish public body based on the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity to address issues related to tolerance, democracy and human rights at the national and international levels, using methods and tools such as exhibitions, workshops and educational materials to reach its main targe... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 1. The purpose of this common core document is to assist the human rights treaty bodies in understanding the situation in Sweden, and it contains general information and specific information concerning the implementation of the instruments to which Sweden is a party that may be of interest to all or more of these bodie... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 2. The first national Constitution in force throughout Sweden was drafted around 1350. The Swedish parliamentary system began to build in the 19th century with the beginning of the transfer of political power from the monarch to Parliament. Universal suffrage was introduced in 1909 for men and in 1921 for women. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 3. The principle of the separation of political powers between the executive and legislative organs of the State was promulgated in the 1809 Government Instrument. Fundamental rights and freedoms are now protected by the 1974 Government Instrument, one of the four basic laws of Sweden, all of which are often referred t... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 11. The public sector comprises headquarters, county councils and municipalities, provides services such as health care, care for the elderly and education, and administers social security, such as child allowances and retirement pensions. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 17. The second cycle of secondary education comprises national vocational training programmes, national preparation programmes for higher education and integration programmes; the minimum requirements for pupils wishing to enrol in national programmes are to obtain the pass mark in compulsory education in Swedish or Sw... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 19. The proportion of upper secondary school pupils who complete the three years of study with the diploma within five years is presented below. (Based on the assumption that students who have not completed the three years of study within five years have dropped out of school, these figures could be considered as an in... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 26. The Swedish Constitution - the 1974 Instrument of Government - is based on the principles of popular sovereignty, representative democracy, parliamentarism, local self-government and the rule of law, and all public powers must be exercised in accordance with the law, which applies not only to the courts and adminis... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 29. The independence of the judiciary is guaranteed by the Government Instrument. No public service, including the Riksdag, can decide how a court should decide a particular case or otherwise apply the rules of law. The law defines the jurisdictional functions of courts and tribunals, the main features of their organiz... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 30. The beginning of the 20th century was marked by the gradual expansion of the electoral system. Universal suffrage was introduced in 1909 for men and in 1921 for women. General elections for the Riksdag, county councils and municipal councils are held every four years. The Riksdag is a single-cameral body with 349 s... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 38. The use of on-demand audio-visual services continues to increase, while the use of linear services continues to decrease. Together, the public broadcaster Sveriges Television AB (SVT) and TV4 Media, which is owned by the operator Telia, hold the largest share of linear television audiences. Other broadcasters, such... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 44. The Government Instrument provides that a legal dispute between individuals cannot be settled by an authority other than a judicial body, except in the cases provided for by law, but also guarantees the systematic possibility of having the legality of a deprivation of liberty examined by a court without undue delay... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 46. The average number of outstanding cases per judge at the various levels of the judicial system for the period 2017-2023 (with the average number of cases tried per judge in parentheses) is as follows: | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 51. The number of police officers per 100,000 inhabitants increased from 195 in 2017 to 218 in 2023. The share of public expenditure allocated to the police increased over the same period from 2.35% to 2.95%. The share allocated to the judiciary increased from 4.68% in 2017 to 4.97% in 2022. In 2023, there were 13.44 p... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 52. The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) produces and disseminates information on crime and its prevention, prepares official crime statistics, evaluates reforms, conducts research and supports crime prevention efforts at the local level. e.g. it produces the Swedish Crime Barometer on a monthly basi... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 54. The prison population is predominantly male; in 2022, men accounted for about 93 per cent of the new prisoners; this figure has remained relatively stable over the past decade; men constitute the majority of those sentenced to custodial sentences, all offences combined; for example, the proportion of men among thos... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 62. The reservation to the obligation to separate juvenile offenders from adults is justified in that the application of article 10 (para. 3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights could lead to the placement of juvenile offenders in central institutions far away from their families and social serv... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 63. The reservation to article 20, paragraph 1, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was made for three reasons: first, the prohibition of propaganda for war imposes restrictions on the freedoms of expression and opinion protected by article 19 of the Covenant and the Swedish Constitution; second... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 70. The rights and freedoms enjoyed by persons in Sweden are mainly protected by three fundamental laws: the Government Instrument, the Press Freedom Act and the Basic Law on Freedom of Expression. Under the Government Instrument, all public powers are exercised with respect for the equal value of all persons and for t... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 71. The Government Instrument contains a list of human rights and freedoms, some of which are considered "absolute" in the sense that they can only be restricted by an amendment to the Basic Law. Others may be restricted by other types of instruments, in particular ordinary laws. Absolute rights include: freedom of wor... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 74. The existence of a free press is one of the essential foundations of a free and democratic society. The Freedom of the Press Act, which is one of the four fundamental laws of Sweden, guarantees freedom of the press. Its aim is to guarantee freedom of opinion, information and artistic creation. Everyone must be able... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 80. The courts and tribunals play a crucial role in protecting the rights of persons in Sweden. The remedies provided by the judicial system are aimed at ensuring the protection of human rights. Disputes are decided by the ordinary courts, administrative courts and, to some extent, administrative authorities. Furthermo... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 81. The Instrument of Government obliges courts and tribunals, administrative authorities and other public bodies not to apply provisions contrary to the rules of a Basic Law or other higher law or adopted in deep disregard of the procedure laid down by law. It should be stressed in this regard that under the Instrumen... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | The Office of Parliamentary Ombudsmen, appointed by the Riksdag, was established in 1809. Parliamentary Ombudsmen have the power to draw up minutes if they find that measures taken by a public body or public official are in conflict with the legislation in force or any other status, or that they are incorrect or otherw... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 87. The Chancellor of Justice is also responsible for monitoring respect for human rights. The Chancellor of Justice may, for example, receive complaints and claims for compensation addressed to the State and decide on the compensation to be granted for the damage suffered. The Chancellor of Justice's Services was esta... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 88. The Office of the Equality Ombudsman, a public body established in 2009, works to combat discrimination and to promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex, identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age. The Ombudsman is responsible for monitoring com... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 94. The Government ' s human rights policy is aimed at ensuring full compliance with Sweden ' s international human rights commitments and this new goal is the basis for the Government ' s efforts in the field of human rights at the national level and sheds light on the link between these efforts and Sweden ' s interna... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 95. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights, established on 1 January 2022, is responsible for promoting respect for human rights and monitoring, investigating and reporting on the implementation and realization of human rights. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 97. The current policy on the rights of national minorities entered into force in 2010 (Bill 2008/09:158: From Recognition to Empowerment - the Government Strategy for National Minorities) and was strengthened in 2019 by amendments, including requiring municipalities and county councils to adopt objectives and guidelin... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | The new Education Act entered into force on 1 July 2011 and places greater emphasis on human rights as one of the fundamental values on which the school system is based, which provides that all persons working in pre-school and school establishments are obliged to promote respect for human rights and to dissociate them... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 119. The responsibility for the preparation of reports under the various United Nations human rights conventions is divided among the various ministerial departments according to the subjects concerned; reports dealing with a wide variety of subjects, several specialized ministries are involved in their preparation; pr... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 124. The prohibition of discrimination set out in the Act is supplemented by rules on active measures, which are simply measures to remedy the situation of employees and other persons in a collective and non-individual manner; they are intended to act as a lever and promote other measures to combat discrimination; all ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 127. The Government and public bodies consult with organizations of persons with disabilities on a variety of issues, as well as with the delegation to persons with disabilities, which is the main forum for dialogue and exchange with persons with disabilities. The Government provides financial support to organizations ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 128. The policy on persons with disabilities, formulated on the basis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is also aimed at ensuring the same conditions of life at the national level as for the rest of the population and enabling them to participate fully in the life of a society based on diver... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 130. The Government Instrument provides that any public authority shall be exercised with respect for the equal value of all persons and for the liberty and dignity of the person; its provision on the prohibition of discrimination specifies that no legislation or other provision shall have the effect of allowing a pers... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 132. The Swedish Penal Code contains two provisions directly relevant to contempt and discrimination based on race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation or transgender identity or expression, one on agitation against national or ethnic groups and the other on unlawful discrimination. ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 133. The protection of the rights of national minorities - Jews, Roma, Sami, Finnish-Swedish Tornedalians - and the rights of other minorities such as migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are ongoing obligations. Government policy on national minorities addresses issues of protection and support for national minoritie... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 135. The promotion of gender equality must be an integral part of all relevant areas of action. Male violence against women is essentially an issue of concern to the gender equality and the right of women and girls to the full enjoyment of their human rights.
The fight against this type of violence, as well as against ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 138. The objective of the government migration policy is to establish a responsible and restrictive policy offering temporary protection to those who need it and meeting the minimum conditions arising from Community law, as well as the binding international rules which Sweden has undertaken to respect, including the ri... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 140. The labour immigration system is under the control of employers and is based on their demand. Migrants who are admitted enjoy many rights and can immediately settle with their families. The law provides a three-month transition period for migrants who lose their jobs or are not satisfied with their employer. Durin... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 141. The municipalities are responsible for the reception of unaccompanied minors, the appointment of legal guardians, their accommodation, their schooling and their care, and the costs incurred by them are reimbursed by the central administration. Upon arrival, unaccompanied children are temporarily placed in a neighb... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 143. The aim of this policy is to ensure equal rights, obligations and opportunities for all regardless of ethnic and cultural origin, mainly through the introduction of general policy measures that are of general interest to the population as a whole and complemented by targeted support for the integration of newly ar... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 144. The main objective of the integration programme is to speed up the integration of newly arrived immigrants into working life and the community and to provide vocational support to all newly arrived immigrants in order to help them learn Swedish, to find a job to support them, and to become familiar with the rights... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 145. The Government ' s regional growth policy aims to ensure dynamic development in all regions of the country by improving local and regional competitiveness; it is based on the ability of the regions to take the necessary measures, but it also places obligations on the central government; one of its prerequisites fo... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 147. The Equality Ombudsman, whose website is www.do.se, is also responsible for raising awareness of discrimination and its prohibition and for disseminating knowledge and information on discrimination not only to potential perpetrators but also to potential victims of discrimination, providing guidance to employers, ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 148. The Swedish Ombudsman for Children (www.barn ombudsmannen.se) also disseminates information on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Its main tasks are to participate in public debates, to raise public interest in key issues and to influence the attitudes of decision-makers and the public, to maintain regular... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWE-2024-fr-parsed | 149. The Living History Forum is a Swedish public body based on the Holocaust, crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes and other crimes against humanity to address issues relating to tolerance, democracy and human rights at the national and international levels. Its specific task is to raise awareness of... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 3. The Kingdom of Eswatini is located in south-eastern southern Africa, a small landlocked country with a total area of 17,364 square kilometres, bordered to the north, west and south by the Republic of South Africa and, to the east by Mozambique, at a latitude of 31°30' east of the Greenwich Meridian and a longitude o... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 4. The Kingdom comprises four topographical and climatic zones, ranging from 400 to 1,800 metres above sea level, each with its specific features. In the west, the Mountain Highveld has rivers, waterfalls and gorges. Its temperate climate is characterized by warm and humid summers and dry winters, with frequent frosts ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 5. The more east is the Lowveld, the largest, also subtropical region, which covers about 40% of the territory. Although it is subject to drought, sugar is cultivated on a large scale through irrigation. Cattle farming is also widespread. Most of the region is covered with a typical African bush that hosts a profusion ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 6. The land tenure of the Kingdom of Eswatini consists of fully owned lands, Swazi Nation lands and Crown lands. Swazi Nation lands are held in trust by the King on behalf of the Eswatini and administered by chiefs on one or more demarcated areas. Access to such lands is always governed by the traditional land allocati... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 10. The population of Eswatini is 1,093,238, or 562,127 women and 531,111 men. This means that the population increased by 74,789 during the decade 2007-2017, representing an annual growth rate of 0.7 per cent. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 12. The maximum exponential growth of 1.3% was recorded in the Hhohho region during the period 2007-2017. The national capital is located in this region, whose faster growth than that of other regions could be explained by better infrastructure and by more jobs and economic opportunities. With a growth rate of 1.1%, th... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 15. The population of Eswatini is young, with the overall economic dependency ratio of 40.97 and the youth economic dependency rate of 37.9. Therefore, changes in the age dependency ratio of the population could have an impact on social and economic development and social assistance needs; a high dependency rate indica... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 16. The population of Eswatini is mainly rural: the rural population and the urban population account for 76.2 per cent and 23.8 per cent respectively out of a total of 1,093,238 inhabitants. In 2007, the urban population decreased slightly to 22.1 per cent and in 2017, it increased by 1.7 per cent. These patterns of s... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 18. The Kingdom of Eswatini is characterized by a wide variety of religious beliefs and practices, including, but not limited to, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Baha'ism, Traditionalism, Judaism, as well as other religions and atheism. 5 The distribution of the population by religious affiliation is presented in Table ... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 20. The economy of the Kingdom of Eswatini is modest and export-oriented, and its growth is highly dependent on global and regional trends and markets. The World Bank classifies Eswatini as a lower-middle-income country. The major economic sectors are manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, public administration, an... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 24. The Eswatini Gini coefficient in 2016 was 54.60 (compared to 51.50 in 2009), which shows a fairly wide distribution of the population in relation to the average income distribution. It assesses the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption expenditure among individuals in a country deviates from a p... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 25. The lilangeni (SZL), linked to the rand (ZAR), by a fixed exchange rate, depreciated against the three main currencies used and in particular the US dollar, averaging SZL 14.45 per dollar in 2019 compared to SZL 13.23 in 2018. The country's main destination and source of trade, both in terms of exports and imports,... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 27. The overall balance deficit amounted to -8.5 % of GDP in fiscal year 2019/2020 and is expected to remain high in fiscal years 2020/2021 (-6.7%) and 2021/22 (-4.1%) (IMF). Deficits are financed by loans from the Central Bank, withdrawals from reserves and external and domestic borrowings. The deficit increased publi... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 28. The decline in economic activity contributed to the rise in the unemployment rate, which in 2021 was 33.3 per cent of the population, of which 33.9 per cent were women and 32.7 per cent men. Unemployment particularly penalizes the rural population, which accounts for 63.3 per cent of the unemployed, while the natio... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 34. The overall rate of literacy in Eswatini is 96 per cent. However, the country has not achieved parity in this area, with women (95.6%) being disadvantaged compared to men (96.5 per cent). | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 37. The Kingdom of Eswatini is committed to developing health care programmes, despite the burden of morbidity resulting from long-standing infectious diseases in the country, together with a new and rapidly changing epidemic of communicable and non-communicable diseases, which have a significant impact on morbidity an... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 38. The fight against HIV/AIDS has moved from a health response phase to a multi-sectoral response, highlighting the success factors that have contributed to making a crisis a boon for the Eswatini, as the country has made significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS since 1986. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 39. The first case of HIV in Eswatini was reported in 1986 and the Government then established the National AIDS Programme to promote awareness, education and information on HIV and AIDS. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 42. The Technical Committee for Crisis Management developed the first Multisectoral National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS for the period 2000-2005, as well as an action plan, and thus launched a multisectoral approach beyond the framework of the health sector, although the sector continued to play a major role in t... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 44. The country had adopted the policy of prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, which had been led by the Ministry of Health, and strategies had been implemented to increase information, education and communication activities for the public; the "abstinence, fidelity, protection" appro... | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 48. The main programmes implemented include:
· The National Multisectoral Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS 2018-2023;
· The National Coordinating Framework;
· The National Health Sector Strategic Plan 2018-2023;
· The Coordination Scheme;
· The minimum service program. | operative |
HRI-CORE-SWZ-2022-fr-parsed | 49. The Constitution of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Act No. 001) of 2005 entered into force on 8 February 2006. The Constitution affirms its supremacy and, as stated in its preamble, reflects the aspirations of the people of Eswatini as to the type of democratic governance system that they wish to establish, including the... | operative |
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