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Published: October 28th 2016
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After another lovely lie in (could get used to this!), we were all up and eager to go for 10. All ready to get our fresh free coffees, or green tea in Katie's case, to get us started.
We met Emma Broberg (who was lovely!) and discussed how her role in the human rights department works and what their department aims to achieve as well as the different organisations they work with.
We learned that Region Vastra Gotaland is very much focused around the healthcare system and feel it is important to give all their citizens rights to healthcare. Recently, due to circumstances in other countries, Sweden has taken in a large number of migrants and these migrants don't always have the same rights as Swedish citizens - something which they are trying to change.
Västra Götaland automatically accepts these migrants as citizens of their region, as they believe equality is very important! The human rights department ensures that all of these people have the basic human rights as any other Swedish citizen including the right to health care, education and the right to work.
We explained to Emma that the UK is
very much the same, all focused on Equality and Diversity - especially in the workplace.
Västra Göteland has recently invested a lot of money into a 3 year pilot project. Their main aim is purely to get more connected with the public and to get people more educated on their own human rights. They set up a large database for people to be able to view the accessibility of different buildings across the region, for example wheelchair access. This was in order to make sure no one is discriminated against. Aswell as this they put the pilot project to test when working with three different venues. They picked a hospital, a museum and a local psychiatric ward. By implementing the ideas of the pilot project into these organisations they found massive improvements! Things such as new ways of working, increased knowledge of human rights and a healthier working environment.
(This project reduced the use of patient "strapping" (use of physical restraints) in psychiatric wards from 4 times a month to almost as little as 4 times over multiple years)
We all found this really interesting and the conversation flow was fab!
After that session we all took turns to do a 1-1 evaluation of our week with Lucy. We all agreed it has been a fantastic opportunity and have all loved learning about the different ways of living and the cultural changes compared to back at home.
We headed back to the hotel to have our own chill time and lunch. In the afternoon, we took the tram to a local park just outside the city where they have animals such as seals, moose (although we didn't see any!), goats, ducks and chickens. It was very cold but lovely to walk around in the fresh autumn air and escape the busy city for a while!
We decided it was time for a treat tonight as we had cooked for ourselves all week, so we ended up at Pizza Hut. We all had a gorgeous meal each, and some of the girls even squeezed in a dessert.
We are all tucked up in bed now, all excited for the day ahead tomorrow for the Liseberg theme park!
Hope everything is well at home!
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