This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Finland in March 2022. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Finland in its previous UPR, including in relation to ratification of international treaties, violence against women, rights of transgender and intersex people, refugees’ and migrants’ rights, human rights education and conscientious objectors’ rights. Amnesty International also provides information, in addition, about climate change, the right to social security and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.
It also assesses the national human rights framework with regard to human rights structures and their resources, human rights impact assessments of government policies and implementation of international recommendations.