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Digital Throughout Life

National strategy to improve digital participation and competence in the population

Critical and Strategic Raw Materials in Norway – Positions and Potensials

The purpose of this report is to provide a knowledge-based and coherent picture of Norway’s role in value chainsfor critical and strategic raw materials.

Read the report here.

Norway’s Report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples

Norway’s Report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples The whole report is here (PDF-format)

Annual Report 2002 - Evaluation activities of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Annual Report 2002 – Evaluation activities of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

An Assessment of the Effects of Norwegian Development Assistance on Poverty Reduction and Conflict Prevention

Med innledende bemerkninger på norsk.

World Expression Forum 2026

Ladies and Gentlemen. Colleagues. Defenders of free speech. We meet at a moment when the principles we care about the most – openness, truth, and democratic participation – are under extraordinary pressure. Around the world, civic space is shrinking

By Minister of Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery World Expression Forum Lillehammer

Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway's involvement in the peace process in the Middle East

Statement the UN Population and Development Commission

Statement at the General Debate under the UN Population and Development Commission 59th Session, by Norwegian Minister of International Development, Åsmund Grøver Aukrust and Youth Delegate Uswa Malik 13th April 2026.

By Minister of International Development Åsmund Aukrust

A comparative study of Swedish and Norwegian Development Aid to Afghanistan 2015 – 2021

This report offers a comparative review of Swedish and Norwegian development aid toAfghanistan focusing on the period 2015- 2021, contributing to the Norwegian Commission onAfghanistan’s evaluation of Norway’s engagement in Afghanistan for this

Faryab School Study Report

In April 2025, the Norwegian Commission on Afghanistan commissioned the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC) to conduct a study on schools in Afghanistan’s Faryab province, financed by Norwegian development between 2006 to 2021. The primary goal of

Immigration and Integration 2018–2019

Report for Norway to the OECD

Annually Norway sends a report to the OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report Immigration and Integration 2018-2019 - Report for Norway to the OECD is a contribution to the reporting system on migration for the OECD

NOU 2000: 1 A Quota System for Greenhouse Gases (Summary) -

A policy instrument for fulfilling Norway's emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.

Act no. 0101 of 11 June 1993 relating to Aviation (Aviation Act)

Draft Declaration on Intellectual Property and (Access to Medicines) (Public Health)

JOB(01)/155 27 October 2001 GENERAL COUNCIL Preparations for the Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference Draft Declaration on Intellectual Property and [Access to Medicines] [Public Health] Attached is a draft Ministerial Declaration on this

First Svalbard Global Seed Vault Deposit of 2026

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened for its first deposit event of 2026 this week.

Voluntary National Review 2021 Norway

Report on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Report No. 2 (2007-2008) to the Storting -

Norway is a diverse industrial society with a free market economy and generally low trade barriers. A significant share of the Norwegian economy consists of service industries, including wholesale and retail trade, banking, insurance, engineering,

Address to the Storting on the situation in the Middle East

By Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide

Address at conference on climate change – feminist action for gender justice

Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim's address at the conference Climate change - feminist action for gender justice,  hosted by Forum for Women and Development (Fokus) and UN Women.

By Former Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim Oslo, 25 March

Minister Tvinnereim’s address on Ukraine and food security

Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Kristiansen Tvinnereim's address at a meeting on Ukraine and food security September 4, 2024. The meeting is part of the Peace Formula, a Ukrainian initiative that includes a ten-point plan for peace.

By Former Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim Ukraine’s Peace Formula