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Ten of twelve public companies failed duties to prevent ethnic and religious discrimination.

Equality law requires continuous preventive work. Public ownership did not make compliance automatic.

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Ten of twelve publicly owned companies failed Sweden's legal requirements for preventing discrimination linked to ethnicity and religion. In the DO review, only two met the standard. Public ownership did not guarantee public standards.

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