The Swedish government adopted a new action plan to combat racism and hate crime.

The action plan (available in Swedish: Handlingsplan mot rasism och hatbrott) aims both to fight racism in general and to highlight and combat specific forms of racism. Built around data on the prevalence of racism in Sweden, the plan focuses particularly on anti-Muslim racism, antisemitism, anti-Black racism, antigypsyism and racism against the Sami. It has four "focus areas": schools, judiciary, welfare and working life. A monitoring system will be developed by the Living History Forum to annually follow up and report to the government on efforts undertaken. 

According to the government, work under the action plan to combat racism and hate crime goes hand in hand with and contributes to Sweden's new integration policy objective.

For more information in English, see the government's online press release, which includes a subtitled video clip with gender equality and working life minister Paulina Brandberg.