Tag: human rights
Rafto prizewinner turns down cash
Pavel Chikov, chairman of the Russian human rights organization Agora, was pleased and proud that the group won the Bergen-based Rafto Prize on Thursday for...
More foreigners in prostitution
The Norwegian government banned prostitution in 2009 in a bid to halt human trafficking, but charities said the number of foreign prostitutes in Norway...
Record human trafficking reports
Norwegian police received record numbers of human trafficking reports last year, almost doubling from 48 in 2012 to 70 in 2013. For the first...
Pride filled the streets of Oslo
Tens of thousands of people turned out Saturday to either watch or march in the annual gay pride parade through downtown Oslo - or do...
Gay rights activist snubs Solberg
One of Norway's most high-profile and respected gay rights activists, author Karen-Christine "Kim" Friele, turned down an invitation to attend a garden party hosted...
Malala gets warm welcome in Oslo
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who became world famous after surviving an attempted murder by the Taliban, was welcomed as a heroine to Oslo...
Man unlawfully held in isolation
A man who was twice held in police isolation cells for days longer than the legal 48-hour period successfully sued the state on Monday,...
Bergen politicians thrown out of Africa
Four Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) politicians on a human rights reporting mission were thrown out of the disputed territory of Western Sahara by...
China lets the politicians squirm
NEWS ANALYSIS: Chinese officials who've been angry with Norway since a Nobel Peace Prize humiliated them in Oslo in 2010 have been able to...
‘Coward’ politicians avoid Dalai Lama
Half of all Norwegians think it's cowardly for Parliamentary President Olemic Thommessen to refuse a meeting with the Dalai Lama when he arrives in...
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