Ulrika Sundberg

Who is Ulrika Sundberg?

Ulrika Sundberg is a Swedish diplomat. Her most recent appointment was Sweden's ambassador to Belgium. "Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan". The Local. October 10, 2009. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.se%2F22576%2F20091010%2F&date=2009-10-10.

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. 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 Nation’s Commission on Human Rights,” in the International Review of Penal Law.

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

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. The four were captured on August 28, 2009, and were released, without charge, on October 10, 2009.