Support for human rights in Swedish development cooperation

Human rights are basic rights that belong to every person all over the world. However, many countries still don't respect them and they are being violated on daily basis. Many of the countries that have issues with human rights are developing countries. Human rights support has therefore become one of the goals of development cooperation. Since the 90's it has become apparent that support of human rights is a crucial prerequisite for sustainable and fair long-term development. Many participants are striving for a deeper integration of human rights into their development activities. Currently, the highest level of integration is an approach based on human rights. Sweden is leading the way in development cooperation and is actively fighting for human rights support in the field of international politics. This paper is going to asses and evaluate to what degree are human rights integrated into Sweden's development cooperation.