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Merit Wager wrote that Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen had said that Finland should not accept traditions, cultures, or customs that limited girls' freedom. According to the Swedish translation that Wager shared, Valtonen believed that girls and women should be able to decide over their own lives, and that religious or cultural norms should not be used to restrict their freedom. Wager also recounted Valtonen's statement that the National Coalition Party wanted to ban face-covering garments, such as the burqa and niqab, in schools and other educational institutions. Valtonen had said that the government led by the National Coalition Party had strengthened the rights of girls and women by more clearly criminalizing forced marriages and female genital mutilation. She had described female genital mutilation as violence and said that every girl had the right to bodily integrity. According to Wager's account, Valtonen also emphasized that equality, individual freedom, and human rights should not be overridden by references to religion, culture, or tradition. Every girl should have the right to be seen, heard, dream, and shape her future based on her own desires, she had said. #Jämställdhet #MänskligaRättigheter #KvinnorsRättigheter (translated)

Marcus Adriano Birro remembers how in 1997, after being selected for a six-month project at Swedish Radio P3, he traveled to Stockholm for radio training together with 24 other young people. On the train, he met Sladjan Osmanagic. Birro recounted that they started talking after Sladjan heard music from The Jesus and Mary Chain that Birro was playing. They became close friends during the training in Stockholm and Gysinge, Birro wrote, and then continued to work together at Swedish Radio in Gothenburg. Sladjan initially worked on Musikjournalen and later became nationally known through Rally in P3. Birro also remembered their long conversations about football and Sladjan's love for Italian football. Birro wrote that Sladjan later invited him to Svenska Fans and supported his way into sports journalism. After the news of Sladjan's death, Birro described him as both uncompromising and warm, expressing sorrow over losing a friend. He also sent love and care to Sladjan's loved ones and wrote that he would raise a glass to his memory. #vänskap #SverigesRadio #fotboll (translated)

The Hungarian art historian József Mélyi criticizes that after five months under Prime Minister Peter Magyar, only marginal changes have been made in Hungary's cultural policy and there is a lack of a strong commitment to contemporary art. #Ungarn #Kulturpolitik #JózsefMélyi (translated)

The Centre Party, the Green Party, the Social Democrats, and the Left Party have agreed to stop the deportation of teenagers and propose a moratorium to protect young people at risk of being separated from their families in Sweden. #politik #migrationspolitik #tonårsutvisningar (translated)

Despite an increase in reading among young people linked to the phenomenon of BookTok, the newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson is receiving no attention in the app, which according to bookseller Frida Thelén reflects that Swedish youth are reading fewer books than before. #Nobelpriset #Litteratur #BookTok (translated)

Today at 1:00 PM, the Swedish Academy will announce the Nobel Prize in Literature, after the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai was awarded last year, and experts expect that this year a woman may receive the award. #Literaturnobelpreis #SchwedischeAkademie #Nobelpreis (translated)

The eHealth Agency and the National Board of Health and Welfare propose that children and young people in foster homes should have access to the Leisure Card by allowing foster parents to apply for and use the support for leisure activities, which will require legislative changes. #fritidskortet #familjehem #barnochunga (translated)

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that genes and upbringing can explain a large part of the connection between high screen use and mental health problems in young people, suggesting that previous correlations may have been overstated. #skärmtid #psykiskohälsa #ungdomar (translated)

Elin Gerdin, 20, talks about her struggle with mental health issues and the lack of support during her upbringing, which is a common experience for many young people, according to a new report that shows less than half of them receive the right help. #psykiskohälsa #ungdomar #vård (translated)

The publication, scheduled to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956 in Hungary, is part of Prime Minister Peter Magyar's commitment to make these documents public, preserved in a vast archive basement in Budapest, and to allow Hungarians to understand their totalitarian past. #Ungaria #Comunism #Reconciliere (translated)

"I do not feel fully comfortable with the idea that society needs such purification or catharsis after so much time - that people must be identified, humiliated, shamed, and punished when they have either already died or moved on to another stage of life." "Then I turned the spotlight on the crowd and saw an audience of about 1,000 people spinning around, trying to see who the informants might be," said Muller, 74, in his studio, smiling. #Ungaria #Comunism #Reconciliere (translated)

Hungary will soon publish the files of informants from the communist period, thus providing citizens access to information about state collaborators and promoting a reconciliation with the totalitarian past, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. #Ungaria #Comunism #Reconciliere (translated)