Amendments to the Discrimination Act

The plan is built on the understanding that different kinds of racism and oppression take different forms and that specific historical knowledge about them is needed for the patterns to be broken. Replacing the listed discrimination grounds with a general provision on improper differential treatment blurs exactly that specificity and risks weakening protection for the groups the plan wants to protect. The plan demands active work against discrimination, not a watered-down general clause.

• specific knowledge of different racismsdecisive»Därför behöver vi specifika historiska kunskaper om olika« (party programme ↗)“Therefore we need specific historical knowledge about different”
• active work against discrimination»Det kräver ett aktivt arbete med att förebygga och« (party programme ↗)“It requires active work to prevent and”
• stopped discrimination in the workplace»Diskrimineringen och rasismen på arbetsmarknaden måste stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Discrimination and racism in the job market must be stopped.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme requires that equality policy be directed at all forms of hierarchy and describes how different power structures reinforce each other in double or multiple subordination. A broader provision that captures all improper differential treatment lies closer to that stance than a closed list of seven grounds. The plan does not comment on the structure of the discrimination law, so the position is derived.

• all forms of subordinationdecisive»Jämlikhetspolitik måste riktas mot alla former av över- och underordning, och dessa måste« (party programme ↗)“Equality policy must be directed at all forms of hierarchy, and these must”
• multiple subordination»underordning, där olika maktstrukturer förstärker varandra.« (party programme ↗)“subordination, where different power structures reinforce each other.”
• oppose discrimination»Diskrimineringen på arbetsmarknaden ska motarbetas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Discrimination on the labour market shall be opposed.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires more effective work against all forms of discrimination and stronger anti-discrimination legislation, which suggests that protection should not depend on a vulnerable group being missing from a fixed list. At the same time the plan wants to add lack of accessibility as a new ground for discrimination, which presupposes a catalogue of grounds. Support for a broader provision is therefore derived and uncertain.

• against all forms of discriminationdecisive»arbete mot alla former av diskriminering.« (party programme ↗)“work against all forms of discrimination.”
• strengthened anti-discrimination legislation»stärka lagstiftningen mot diskriminering och se över rätten till rättshjälp i diskrimineringsfall.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“strengthen anti-discrimination legislation and review the right to legal aid in discrimination cases.”
• new ground for discrimination»Bristande tillgänglighet är i sig en typ av« (party programme ↗)“Lack of accessibility is in itself a type of”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan's principled starting point is that all structures that oppress or discriminate shall be fought, regardless of the grounds, and that discrimination in all its forms shall be countered. This speaks for a broader provision that doesn't leave groups outside protection. At the same time the plan works concretely with named grounds when it wants to add gender and disability as hate crime grounds, so the conclusion is uncertain.

• all discrimination is foughtdecisive»Vi bekämpar alla strukturer, formella och informella, som förtrycker eller diskriminerar människor.« (party programme ↗)“We fight all structures, formal and informal, that oppress or discriminate people.”
• all forms of discrimination»Diskriminering, strukturell rasism och intolerans, i alla dess former, ska motverkas.« (party programme ↗)“Discrimination, structural racism and intolerance, in all its forms, shall be countered.”
• expanded discrimination grounds»Mer måste göras mot diskriminering. Vi vill stärka myndigheternas arbete mot diskriminering och höja ersättningen till dem som utsatts, samt lägga till kön och funktionsnedsättning som hatbrottsgrunder.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More must be done against discrimination. We want to strengthen authorities' work against discrimination and raise compensation for those victimised, as well as add gender and disability as hate crime grounds.”
• individual before group belonging»Varje individ har rätt att skapa sin egen identitet.« (party programme ↗)“Every individual has the right to create their own identity.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan commits that discrimination law should be modernized and that the state with force should combat all kinds of discrimination, with the stated measure that the person affected should be able to get redress. That complaints are dismissed because they do not fit into any of the seven grounds speaks against that measure, which gives support for a broader provision on improper discrimination. At the same time the plan is built on named prohibitions, for example against gender and age discrimination, which makes the support uncertain.

• combat all kinds of discriminationdecisive»Därför ska staten med kraft bekämpa all slags rasism, diskriminering och intolerans.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Therefore the state should with force combat all kinds of racism, discrimination and intolerance.”
• modernize discrimination law»Vi vill modernisera diskrimineringslagen, prioritera polisens hatbrottsverksamhet och säkerställa att alla skolor står upp för alla människors lika värde.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to modernize discrimination law, prioritize police hate crime work and ensure that all schools stand up for all people's equal value.”
• redress for those affected»kosta att diskriminera och den som drabbas ska kunna få hjälp att få upprättelse.« (party programme ↗)“cost to discriminate and the person affected should be able to get help to get redress.”
• maintained discrimination bans»Förbudet mot könsdiskriminering ska upprätthållas på alla samhällsområden.« (party programme ↗)“The ban on gender discrimination shall be maintained on all areas of society.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires well-functioning laws against all discrimination and is based on every person having the same inalienable value regardless of sex, age, social position, functional variations, sexual identity or ethnic and religious affiliation — an enumeration broader than the seven grounds. This speaks for a provision that captures all improper differential treatment rather than a closed catalog. However, the plan does not take a position on the discrimination law's technical construction, so the conclusion is uncertain.

• laws against all discriminationdecisive»Väl fungerande lagar mot all diskriminering i arbetslivet ska finnas.« (party programme ↗)“Well-functioning laws against all discrimination in working life must exist.”
• equal value regardless of ground»har samma absoluta och okränkbara värde oavsett kön, ålder, social position, funktionsvariationer, sexuell identitet, etnisk eller religiös tillhörighet.« (party programme ↗)“have the same absolute and inalienable value regardless of sex, age, social position, functional variations, sexual identity, ethnic or religious affiliation.”
• negative differentiation is combated»Personer med funktionsnedsättning riskerar att i olika sammanhang bli negativt särbehandlade.« (party programme ↗)“Persons with functional disabilities risk being negatively differentiated in various contexts.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan's overarching principle is that freedoms and rights belong to individuals and never to collectives and that everyone shall be judged based on their person and their actions, not based on background, sex or sexual orientation. A broad provision against improper differential treatment instead of a fixed list of groups lies closer to that principle than today's enumeration. The plan therefore supports the counter-proposal's demands, albeit derived from general principles.

• judgment based on person not groupdecisive»allas rätt att bli bedömda utifrån sin person« (party programme ↗)“everyone's right to be judged based on their person”
• rights belong to individuals»Fri- och rättigheter tillhör individer och aldrig« (party programme ↗)“Freedoms and rights belong to individuals and never”
• the individual before the collective»kommer alltid hävda individen mot kollektivismen« (party programme ↗)“will always assert the individual against collectivism”
• equal treatment and non-discrimination»utövas godtyckligt, eller på ett sätt som diskriminerar« (party programme ↗)“exercised arbitrarily, or in a way that discriminates”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme establishes that neither negative nor positive unequal treatment shall be permitted and that all citizens shall be equal before the law with the same rights and responsibilities. A broad provision on improper unequal treatment instead of a closed catalogue of seven grounds comes close to that principle, since the protection then does not depend on what group the person subjected to it belongs to. However, the plan does not directly address the construction of the discrimination act.

• no unequal treatment at alldecisive»Vare sig negativ eller positiv särbehandling på basis av kön, ålder, sexuell läggning« (party programme ↗)“Neither negative nor positive unequal treatment on the basis of gender, age, sexual orientation”
• equality before the law»skall vara lika inför lagen och ha samma rättigheter och skyldigheter« (party programme ↗)“shall be equal before the law and have the same rights and responsibilities”
• counter unequal treatment»Motverka diskriminering och särbehandling p.g.a. kön« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Counter discrimination and unequal treatment because of gender”