The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided equally between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman. Photo: Scanpix/ photomontage MFA Norway
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Last updated: 10/10/2011 //
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg commented, “This is an important recognition of the role they have played in ensuring women’s safety and right to participate in peace-building work. Women’s participation is crucial in promoting peace and preventing conflict.”
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Last updated: 01/08/2011 //
“If one man can show so much hatred, imagine how much love we can show together.” So said a young woman who lost friends on the island of Utøya during the attacks of Friday 22 July. The quote has been widely embraced by survivors, families and political leaders in Norway.
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Last updated: 25/07/2011 //
Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, commented: “Norway has today been victim of a double attack. First a bomb attack on the government offices in the centre of Oslo and secondly on the summer camp of the Labour youth movement. These are horrific and tragic attacks that we condemn in the strongest possible terms”.
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Last updated: 17/08/2011 //
Norway is in mourning after the terrible attacks in Oslo and at Utøya. We are all joined together in deep respect and sympathy for those who have lost their lives.
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Last updated: 21/07/2011 //
Press release: “The drought in the Horn of Africa is critical and gives cause for serious concern. The extent of the crisis will be worse than first assumed. We have therefore decided to increase Norway’s contribution by NOK 30 million, bringing the total up to NOK 263 million. We will do our part, but the whole international community must respond rapidly in order to prevent this crisis becomi...
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Last updated: 11/07/2011
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said, “We congratulate South Sudan on becoming the world’s newest state. Norway has been an active player in the peace process in Sudan, and we will continue our engagement with both South Sudan and Sudan.”
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Last updated: 22/06/2011
In commemorating the sixty years after governments around the world expressed their solidarity with refugees by signing the 1951 UN Refugee Convention Norway has joined a collaboration with the UNHCR for the organisation of the World Refugee Day. In connection with this day 1500 T-shirts will be printed, bearing the picture of Norwegian Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the very first UNHCR High Commissionar
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