Ulrika Sundberg is a

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diplomat. Her most recent appointment is Sweden's ambassador to Ireland and previously to

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(Sweden based) and

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. 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''. It was her report on conference on

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held in

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, South Africa in 2000, and the problems confrerees had agreeing on a definition of

discrimination Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...

. 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''. In 2006 Sundberg took a lead role in Swedish efforts to have the

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to incorporate

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standards into its lending. Sundberg had regular meetings with

Rehman Malik Abdul Rehman Malik NI ( Punjabi, Urdu: رحمان ملک; born 12 December 1951 – 23 February 2022) was a Pakistani politician and a Federal Investigation Agency officer, having served as the Interior Minister from being appointed on 25 Marc ...

, Pakistan's

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, when four Muslim Swedes,

Mehdi Ghezali Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali ( ar, مهدي محمد غزالي), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede ( sv, Kubasvensken), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guanta ...

Munir Awad Munir Awad ( ar, منير عوض) is a Lebanon-born citizen of Sweden who was convicted of plotting a terrorist attack in Denmark. Munir Awad, and his fiancée were arrested in Kenya in 2007 when Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia and foreigners ...

, Safia Benaouda, and her two-year-old child, were captured and faced allegations that they had ties to terrorism. The four were captured on August 28, 2009, and were released, without charge, on October 10, 2009.

References

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