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The Oslo Center is a non-profit organization and as a consequence relies solely upon donations from the general public. According to the official webpage, the center had enough funds from various Norwegian businesses and corporations in 2007 to keep it up and running for the following five years. The budget for 2007 was 10.5 million Norwegian ...
The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual HRF conference in Oslo, Norway, supported by several grant-giving institutions in Scandinavia and the United States through HRF. Donors include Fritt Ord, the City of Oslo, the Thiel Foundation, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amnesty International Norway, Plan Norway, the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, Human ...
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded following the adoption of the Helsinki Accords.Its activities are founded on the principle that the documentation of human rights violations and the presence of a strong civil society is of vital importance in order for states to protect human rights within their borders, as well as abroad.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norwegian: Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter; abbreviated SMR in Norwegian and NCHR in English) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. From 2001 to 2015 it was also the ICC accredited Norwegian national human rights institution. [1]
Pages in category "Human rights organisations based in Norway" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, on Thursday lost his second attempt to sue the state for what he claimed was a ...
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC; Norwegian: Flyktninghjelpen) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation that protects the rights of people affected by displacement. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons who are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, human rights violations and acute violence, as well as ...
The country maintains a dedicated commitment to human rights and was the second country to ratify the European Convention on Human Rights. [1] Although Norway is regarded as relatively proactive in human rights matters, ranking first in the UN Development Program's Human Development Index for 12 of the last 15 years, human rights issues still ...