Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se

v Encourage mothers and fathers to share parental
leave between them.
v Reduce the taxation of domestically related
services.
v Intensify the fight against violence to women.
v Let parents themselves choose their own child care
arrangements and working hours.
v Raise parental insurance benefit rates.
Global solidarity
v Raise development assistance to 1% of GDP.
v Make gifts to international assistance tax-deductible.
v Strengthen the struggle for democracy, human
rights and greater gender equality in the context
of development co-operation.
v Improve freedom of trade between the countries
of the world.
v Support debt forgiveness for Third World countries,
conditional on democratic and economic reforms.
v Safeguard the right of asylum in Sweden and Europe
and give the term “refugee” a wider interpretation.
v Use a more humane refugee policy to counteract
refugee trafficking.
v Open up Sweden for labour immigration.
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