Ulrika Sundberg is a Swedish diplomat.
Her most recent appointment was Sweden's ambassador to Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 (Sweden based).


In 2002 Sundberg wrote a paper entitled, “Durban: The Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,” in the International Review of Penal Law.
It was her report on conference on racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

 held in Durban

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

, South Africa in 2000, and the problems confrerees had agreeing on a definition of discrimination

Discrimination

Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group. The term began to be...

. In 2005 Sundberg wrote a nineteen-page report, entitled, “Human Rights and Terrorism: Some Comments on the Work of United Nation’s Commission on Human Rights,” in the International Review of Penal Law.

In 2006 Sundberg took a lead role in Swedish efforts to have the World Bank

World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

 to incorporate human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

 standards into its lending.

Sundberg had regular meetings with Rehman Malik

Rehman Malik

27 April 2009 He has been the interior adviser since 27 March 2008.Senator A. Rehman Malik is a Pakistani politician, member of the Senate of Pakistan, and the current Interior Minister of Pakistan under the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani administration. His Second name is Shetan Malik and he...

, Pakistan's Minister of the Interior, when four Muslim Swedes, Mehdi Ghezali

Mehdi Ghezali

Mehdi Muhammed Ghezali , in media previously known as the Cuba-Swede , is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held as what the United States termed an unlawful combatant at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004...

, Munir Awad

Munir Awad

Munir Awad is a Lebanon-born citizen of Sweden who has fallen under suspicion of an association with terrorism.Munir Awad, and his fiancee, Safia Benaouda , were captured when Kenya forces, with United States support, invaded Somalia.The pair describe being held in extrajudicial detention...

, Safia Benaouda

Safia Benaouda

Safie Benaouda is a citizen of Sweden who had fallen under suspicion of an association with terrorism.Safie is the daughter of the head of Muslim Council of Sweden Helena Benaouda....

, and her two-year-old child, were captured and faced allegations that they had ties to terrorism. The four were captured on August 28, 2009, and were released, without charge, on October 10, 2009.