Norway contributes $3 million to WHO acute care programme
A major new investment from the Norwegian Agency for International Development (Norad) is set to accelerate life-saving emergency care across Africa, as WHO scales...
Climate change: WHO urged to declare a global health emergency
An Independent Commission chaired by former Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is calling on the World Health Organisation to formally declare climate change a...
Sweden contributes SEK 2 million to WTO capacity-building activities
Sweden has given SEK 2 million (just under CHF 170,000) to the WTO's Global Trust Fund for 2026 to finance technical assistance and training...
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Grundfos Foundation and WFP commit to transform school...
The World Food Programme (WFP) and the two Danish foundations Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) and Grundfos Foundation today announced the launch of the third...
Press Freedom Index: Press freedom at a record low, Norway number...
For the first time in the 25-year history of the Press Freedom Index, more than half of the world's countries are in the “difficult”...
Norway provides NOK 1.7 billion to the World Food Programme
Minister of International Development Åsmund Aukrust today signed a new four-year agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP), committing NOK 1.72 billion to help...
Renewables rising: Norway is reshaping energy security
The ongoing insecurity in the Middle East, where a large proportion of the world’s oil and gas is extracted, is forcing many countries to...
UN committee: Sweden violated rights of child with severe disabilities
The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Sweden violated the right to life and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading...
Denmark one of only four countries in Europe hitting global flu...
The WHO European Region has made real progress on influenza vaccination over the past 15 years. Since 2008/09, the number of doses distributed across...
UNESCO and Sweden launch emergency action to preserve cultural heritage in...
Sweden will support UNESCO’s efforts to safeguard Ukraine’s Khortytsia National Reserve, through emergency conservation, documentation and capacity building.
Supported by Swedish Ministry of Culture, for...
NRC-report: Sudan war refugees pushed into hunger as livelihoods collapse across...
Families displaced by the war in Sudan are facing extreme hunger, repeated displacement and total loss of livelihoods, according to new research by the...
Record donation to UNICEF Sweden – thousands of children in Gaza...
UNICEF Sweden's partner Akelius Foundation donates 800 million kronor to efforts for children's education in Gaza – the largest single donation to UNICEF Sweden...
Norway and IFAD reaffirm partnership to advance food security and rural...
Norway and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today reaffirmed their strong strategic partnership and commitment to investing in rural people as a...
In Europe only Andorra, Estonia and Iceland meet WHO guidelines on...
In Europe, Andorra, Estonia and Iceland are the only countries that met the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline – 5 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m³)...
Norway’s new legislation shields children from marketing of unhealthy foods
Norway has banned the marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks to children to reduce overweight and obesity and to protect them from cardiovascular diseases,...