Refugee family reunification remained difficult due to legislative and practical obstacles. Intimate partner violence against women increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many social security benefits remained inadequate.

This report examines inequality in healthcare in Finland. Based on extensive background research and over a hundred interviews with patients, social and healthcare workers, authorities, and experts – this report reveals how the existence of parallel primary healthcare systems, coupled with periods...

This is Amnesty International’s Oral Statement on the consideration of the Finland’s UPR report at the UN Human Rights Council’s 52nd Session from 27 February – 4 April 2023.

Amnesty International provides the below information to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) ahead of the review of the eighth periodic report of Finland at its 81st session, setting out Amnesty International’s key concerns about Finland’s compliance with...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2022. The countries covered are Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland,...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Finland in March 2022. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Finland in its previous UPR, including in relation to ratification of international treaties, violence against women,...

The right to social security and an adequate standard of living are human rights guaranteed in international law and in the Finnish Constitution. However, as this joint report by Amnesty International Finland and the Finnish League for Human Rights shows, for a significant number of people in...

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) ahead of the adoption of the list of issues for the eighth periodic report of Finland at its 81st pre-session. This submission sets out Amnesty...

Amnesty International submits this briefing to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (the Committee) ahead of its examination of the seventh periodic report of Finland at its 130th session in October 2020. In particular, the submission provides information on discrimination on the grounds...

This submission has been prepared in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 68th session of the seventh periodic report on Finland’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant). In...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

Amnesty International presents its responses to the questionnaire on criminalization and prosecution of rape in Finland. This submission has been prepared in response to the call for contributions issued by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and...

Amnesty International presents its submissions on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as contributions to her thematic report on rape as a grave and...