Ulrika Sundberg

Ulrika Sundberg is a Swedish diplomat.[1] Her most recent appointment is Sweden's ambassador to Ireland and previously to Belgium (Sweden based) and Pakistan.[2][3][4]

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.[5] It was her report on conference on racism held in Durban, South Africa in 2000, and the problems confrerees had agreeing on a definition of discrimination. 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.[6]

In 2006 Sundberg took a lead role in Swedish efforts to have the World Bank to incorporate human rights standards into its lending.[1]

Sundberg had regular meetings with Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Minister of the Interior, when four Muslim Swedes, Mehdi Ghezali, Munir Awad, Safia Benaouda, and her two-year-old child, were captured and faced allegations that they had ties to terrorism.[2][3][4] The four were captured on August 28, 2009, and were released, without charge, on October 10, 2009.

References
  1. "The World Bank takes on the Human Rights agenda". Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 10 October 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  2. "Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan". The Local. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009.
  3. "Sweden: Pakistan has released arrested Swedes". Mlive. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
  4. "Pakistan Swedes Freed". SR International. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012.
  5. Ulrika Sundberg (2002). "Durban: The Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance". 73 (1). International Review of Penal Law. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Ulrika Sundberg (2005). "Human Rights and Terrorism: Some Comments on the Work of United Nations Commission on Human Rights". Vol. 76, no. 1. International Review of Penal Law. Retrieved 10 October 2009.

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