In Hitler's Germany, people from minority groups - Jews, Roma and homosexuals - were forced to wear armbands. Jews were marked with Jewi...

M any foreigners living in Finland have come to terms with the bitter reality of the fact that racism and xenophobia run deep - both online ...

A mnesty International, Finnish Section, publishes a newspaper - Amnesty-lehti - four times a year. The newspaper is produced in part by vo...

W hile researching Finland's asylum application procedure on 2 March 2012, I came across an unsettling news report about people of Roman...

I mmigrants in Oulu, northern Finland, staged a demonstration on 24 February 2012 against the shooting to death of an immigrant in a pizzeri...

I n a country where a Member of Parliament for the Perussuomalaiset (PS) political party can openly use racist and derogatory language  (vi...

A mnesty International - Finnish Section - is organizing a discussion about the human rights situation in Cameroon , especially the systemat...

W hile searching for information about the Finnish Red Cross (Finnish: Punainen Risti) on 23 January 2012, I came across news about a rap mu...

S ince the True Finns (Perussuomalaiset) - a far-right anti-immigration political party with strong views on Islam and the eurozone - made s...

O ver the years, Muslims and immigrants have been used as punching bags in Finland, but the situation is gradually spiraling out of control....

On Sunday, 17 April 2011, voters in Finland went to the polls in a parliamentary election which changed Finland's political landscape ...

Eva Biaudet. Photo: Wikipedia . A n ombudsman, as defined by The Free Online Dictionary , is a government official, especially in Scandin...

A lthough Finland has failed to ratify the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and All Members o...

A couple of weeks ago, a [foreign] student in Finland asked me a question: where do you turn to if you lend someone a hugh amount of money a...

L ast week's article on Significant Human Rights Instruments raised some questions for discussion pertaining to the International Conve...

The right to privacy is a fundamental human right enshrined in democratic Constitutions and in numerous international human rights standard...

It is no secret that many immigrants in Finland are in limbo - cutoff from day to day activities that make life more fulfilling and dignifyi...

The Finnish AIDS Council offered free HIV tests for immigrants and foreigners in Oulu and Helsinki , Finland on Monday April 12, 2010. The...

According to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health , there are an estimated 10,000 Romani people in Finland. They are a minority recogni...

Finland's Minister of Migration and European Affairs - Astrid Thors was issued death threats on Facebook, for her "treasonous...