'discrimination ombudsman', DO; formerly Jämställdhetsombudsmannen, 'equality ombudsman', JämO) is a government agency in Sweden tasked with supervising the laws relating to discrimination on the basis of someone's sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age.
It was formed on 1 January 2009 from the four previously separate ombudsmen tasked with different aspects of discrimination.
The term ombudsman refers to the office with staff, as well as being the title of its government-appointed acting head.
Its main task was to monitor the function and adherence to four laws that regulated gender equality: the Equality Act, the Equal Treatment of University Students Act, the law prohibiting discrimination and other degrading treatment of children and pupils, and as of 1 July 2005, also the law prohibiting gender discrimination.
The JämO between 2000 and 2007 was Claes Borgström, who left in order to start a law firm with former Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström.