Tag: human rights
Veteran politician blasts the church
Per-Kristian Foss, Norway's Auditor General and a former longtime Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party, has called the Norwegian Church's refusal to marry...
Parliament chief avoids Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama will travel to Oslo next month to mark 25 years since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Wednesday the...
Church refuses to marry gay couples
UPDATED: The Norwegian Church's (Den norske kirke) highest governing body voted against allowing homosexual couples to marry in a religious ceremony on Tuesday. However,...
Breivik claims isolation is torture
Convicted Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik wants to petition the courts to have his ongoing isolation deemed unlawful, after 33 months in solitary confinement,...
Royals’ whirlwind Vietnam visit
Norway's Crown Prince and Princess led a large trade delegation to Vietnam this week to pave the way for more business between the two...
Ministry faces new aid dilemmas
Norway's Foreign Ministry was facing tough questions on Wednesday over its extension of financial aid to more than a dozen countries in Africa that...
Norway to review all aid to Uganda
UPDATED: Foreign Minister Børge Brende, who "deeply regrets" a new law in Uganda that can send homosexuals to prison for life, announced Monday that...
Solberg ‘direct’ with Russian PM
Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg said she was "not the most diplomatic" when she met with the Russian Prime Minister Dimitrij Medvedev on Friday...
Royals’ contested visit ‘important’
Norway’s King Harald and Queen Sonja arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara this week to begin a controversial three-day state visit. The royals are...
Rafto winner credits ‘unnamed heroes’
Maryam al-Khawaja, acting president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, accepted the Rafto Prize in Bergen on Sunday on behalf of the center,...
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