German government plans to reform adoption law, allowing unmarried couples to adopt and a child to have two mothers politics Article 1300 words 31 votes
Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent politics Article 902 words 17 votes
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries politics Article 2564 words 19 votes
UN rebukes Finland for violating rights of its children held in Syria camps – child rights committee says Helsinki must do more to repatriate those detained politics Article 440 words 3 votes
Six people who were part of a failed 1950s social experiment have won compensation from Denmark's government and will receive a face-to-face apology from the prime minister Article 1243 words 5 votes
Germany and Finland have repatriated five women and eighteen children from Syrian camps housing suspected family members of Islamic State militants Article 44 words 6 votes
Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment Article 39 words 11 votes