Gender Equality

The Government has developed a Norwegian action plan to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. The action plan was launched by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre at an event on International Women’s Day 8 March 2006. Read more

The Norwegian delegation to the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be led by State Secretary Håkon A. Gulbrandsen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The CSW will be held in New York from 25 February to 7 March 2008. Read more

"We would like to see a more integrated approach in the following up of the implementation of CEDAW and CRC: To secure girls’ human rights is to secure women’s human rights," said Director General Arni Hole, Ministry of Children and Equality, to the Commission on the Status of Women. Read more

The seventh periodic report to the United Nations on Norway's implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Read more

"The economic independence of Norwegian women is at the heart of our gender equality policy. Both men and women should be able to combine paid work and family life. This has been a major factor in Norway’s economic success," Ambassador Mona Juul said in a statement to the Commission on the Status of Women.   Read more

Norway's statement in the Third Committee on the advancement of Women, delivered by H.E. Guro K. Vikør, Ambassador, Women's Rights and Gender Equality: Read more

Second Committee statement of Norway on Women and Development, held on 14 November 2005: Read more