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Swedish agencies wait for complaints before checking ethnic bias
Riksrevisionen called Sweden's safeguards reactive and ineffective. More than half the complaints it examined concerned decisions the Equality Ombudsman could not supervise.
Seven agencies decide benefits, taxes, debt collection, policing and custody. They rarely test those decisions for ethnic discrimination until someone complains, and the watchdog cannot review most decisions at four of them.
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