New approach to environment and development

15/10/2007 :: The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 is shared between Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. + More

10/10/2007 :: Literature and the people who love is have been granted a brand new meeting place. In late September Norway’s first and Europe’s largest House of Literature was launched in Oslo. + More

26/09/2007 :: Norway’s Rafto Prize is awarded to the Indian organisation The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR, for its fights for the rights of Dalits (the casteless). + More

29/11/2006 :: Norway is now taking the initiative for a process that could lead to an international ban on cluster munitions that have unacceptable humanitarian consequences. The aim is to ensure that such weapons no longer pose a threat to civilians during and after armed conflicts. + More