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29/10/2013
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Rio+20 is the United Nations major Conference on Sustainable Development. Some 50 000 people will attend this major event in Rio de Janeiro 20-22 June, 20 years after the historic Rio Conference in 1992. At the conference, world leaders will stake
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 5: IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH The challenge – Making pregnancy safer Statistics on maternal disabilities and illnesses are appalling in countries with high mortality, with often life long disabilities in survivors. For
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
TACKLING NEWBORN DEATH AND ILLNESS The challenge: Making it through the first day Until recently, there has been little effort to tackle the specific health problems of newborn babies. Most of their deaths are unrecorded and remain invisible. A
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4: REDUCING CHILD MORTALITY The challenge – accelerating child survival Latest figures show that 9.7 million children under-five are dying every year, down from over 12 million in 1990 Most of these children are dying in
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
At the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in September 2007, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway led the launch of a global campaign to save the lives of millions of women and children. On behalf of Norway, Prime Minister Stoltenberg
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals Progress Report - April 2008 (Download the report in PDF)
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
Norway will work to promote a more comprehensive and ambitious international climate change agreement to follow the Kyoto Protocol. Norway will continue to fulfil its obligations and reduce greenhouse gas emissions both nationally and
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing in poor countries. The group was established by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2010, and is tasked with
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28/10/2013
Article
Office of the Prime Minister
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative was launched by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007. One of the key aims is to incorporate reduction of emissions from deforestation and
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25/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Children and Equality
The Anti-Discrimination Act Commission’s report on a comprehensive protection against discrimination The Commission to propose comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation was appointed by the Norwegian Government on 1 June 2007. The Commission has
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25/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
The Norwegian Minister of Fisheries
and Coastal Affairs, Svein Ludvigsen, sets the problem with the
blue whiting on the international agenda. He invites his colleges
in the EU, the Russian Federation, Faroe Islands, Greenland and
Iceland to
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25/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
The 11th Conference of North
Atlantic Fisheries Ministers (NAFMC) was hosted by Ms. Helga
Pedersen, Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs of Norway,
aboard “MS Polarlys”, between Tromsø and Brønnøysund on 8 and 9
June 2006.
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24/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion
The Government aims to eradicate poverty and reduce social and economic differences through universal welfare schemes, strong collective solutions and by providing individual with an opportunity to participate in employment. The Government presented
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21/10/2013
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Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Innovative, Energy Efficient Refrigeration System Employs Vault’s Natural Sandstone as “Cold Store” to Keep Facility at Steady -18C.
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21/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
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18/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Finance
Oslo may be reached from all continents with direct flights or via Copenhagen, with departures for Oslo every hour. Oslo Airport Gardermoen is situated 50 km from the city centre.
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18/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Finance
Ministers of Finance of the Nordic and Baltic Sea Countries - Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Denmark - and the Russian Federation met for their 12th Conference on 31 May 2007 in Oslo, Norway.
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17/10/2013
Article
Ministry of Justice and the Police
This fact sheet presents the content of the white paper on Norwegian refugee and migration policy in a European perspective and the Government’s 22 main priorities in the field of refugees and migration in the time ahead.
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17/10/2013
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Ministry of Finance
The report from the peer review of Norway's policies for sustainable development is now available in English. The report has been supplemented with a foreword by the Minister of Finance and a short summary (pp. 11-13) that describes how the