Honor-related violence and oppression: further measures
What's at stake: The decision concerns how coordinated and forceful society's work against honor-related violence and oppression is — violence that severely restricts people's freedom to decide over their own lives, including through threats, violence, and in extreme cases killings to protect a family's honor.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether further measures against honor-related violence and oppression are needed — such as a nationally coordinated structure, guidelines on secular values for municipalities, and more information efforts — or whether the work already under way already covers this.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee notes that extensive work is already under way against honor-related violence and oppression — including a new gender-equality sub-goal and the relocation of the national competence center — and considers several of the proposals already fully or partly addressed, and therefore rejects the motions.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 7 (SD)
The government should ensure a nationally coordinated structure that gives municipalities support and follow-up, draw up national guidelines on secular values to counter gender-separatist activities, and intensify information efforts on honor-related issues, because honor-related violence and oppression has increased despite efforts so far.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 7 by SD.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Yes 21/0/0/3
S
–
Yes 93/0/0/13
MP
–
Abstain 0/0/15/3
C
–
Abstain 0/0/21/3
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SDown reservation
–
No 0/63/0/9
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2024/25:421 by Markus Wiechel (SD) demands 2 and 3,
2024/25:1412 by Michael Rubbestad et al. (SD) demand 3,
2024/25:1413 by Sara Gille et al. (SD) demands 14 and 20-22,
2024/25:1972 by Fredrik Saweståhl (M),
2024/25:2091 by Noria Manouchi (M) demand 2,
2024/25:3157 by Helena Vilhelmsson et al. (C) demand 32 and
2024/25:3307 by Janine Alm Ericson et al. (MP) demand 6.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2024/25:421 av Markus Wiechel (SD) yrkandena 2 och 3,
2024/25:1412 av Michael Rubbestad m.fl. (SD) yrkande 3,
2024/25:1413 av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD) yrkandena 14 och 20-22,
2024/25:1972 av Fredrik Saweståhl (M),
2024/25:2091 av Noria Manouchi (M) yrkande 2,
2024/25:3157 av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C) yrkande 32 och
2024/25:3307 av Janine Alm Ericson m.fl. (MP) yrkande 6.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag has considered the government's statement with an in-depth follow-up of work to prevent and combat men's violence against women.
The statement is part of the government's action programme to prevent and combat men's violence against women, violence in close relationships and honour-related violence and oppression, as well as prostitution and human trafficking. According to the action programme, the government shall every other year submit a statement to the Riksdag reporting on the work to achieve the gender equality policy sub-target that men's violence against women shall cease. The current statement describes developments during the period of the national strategy to prevent and combat men's violence against women 2017–2026, with a focus on 2022–2023.
The Riksdag notes, among other things, that extensive work is underway to counteract and stop men's violence against women and violence in close relationships, and places its confidence in the government continuing to pursue active policy and closely monitoring developments in this field.
The Riksdag sent the government's statement to the records, that is, concluded the matter.
The Riksdag also rejected the follow-up motion raised in connection with the statement and approximately 30 proposals in motions from the general motion period 2024, primarily with reference to the fact that work is already underway in the issues that the proposals address.
The proposals concern, among other things, work against men's violence against women and violence in close relationships, work against honour-related violence and oppression, and measures regarding support and protection for those subject to violence.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to broaden perspectives on violence in close relationships to include all forms and increase focus on women's violence against men. (SD) — Reservation 7
Motion 2024/25:3111 — Utgiftsområde 4 Rättsväsendet av Teresa Carvalho m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:3157 — Ett jämställt samhälle av Helena Vilhelmsson m.fl. (C)
Motion 2024/25:3307 — med anledning av skr. 2024/25:69 Fördjupad uppföljning av arbetet med att förebygga och bekämpa mäns våld mot kvinnor av Janine Alm Ericson m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2024/25:421 — Åtgärder för att förebygga hedersbrott och stötta utsatta av Markus Wiechel (SD)
Motion 2024/25:898 — Kraftsamling mot mäns våld mot kvinnor av Magnus Manhammar (S)