Norway increases funding to promote freedom of expression and cultural rights
Norway has reached a new agreement with UNESCO to provide NOK 200 million to support efforts to promote freedom of expression, artistic freedom and...
WFP´s Beasley: Iceland a role-model for China, Gulf States
WFP Executive Director David Beasley has applauded the government of Iceland for doubling its support for the World Food Programme. In a visit to...
Norway increases support to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Norway has signed a new cooperation agreement regarding increased support with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The new cooperation agreement was signed...
Finland violated rights of Finnish children in Syria
Child rights. Finland’s failure to repatriate Finnish children who have been held in Syrian camps in life-threatening conditions for years violated their right to...
Denmark, Finland and South Korea top the 2022 UN e-government ranking
E-government. Despite the multiple crises of the past two years, countries and municipalities have remained committed to pursuing digital government strategies — many implemented...
IMO-Norway GreenVoyage2050 Project
Low Carbon Shipping. The IMO-Norway GreenVoyage2050 has celebrated five years of its Global Industry Alliance to Support Low Carbon Shipping (Low Carbon GIA). The...
Iceland/UNGA: World will be dominated by force if it is not...
Iceland/General Assembly. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, has registered her country’s acute awareness that the world will be dominated...
Sweden/UNGA: Sweden’s security environment has fundamentally changed
Sweden/General Assembly. Anne Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, stressed that the war in Ukraine must stop and Russian troops withdraw. Her country...
Norway/UNGA: Russia is responsible for bringing the Ukraine war to an...
Norway/General Assembly. Jonas Gahr Støre Prime Minister of Norway has stressed in his address to the 77th General Assembly that the Russian Federation bears...
Denmark/UNGA: If we can, the G20 also can
Denmark/General Assembly. Collectively, “we must address...the fundamental imbalances in the world we share,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod told the 77th General assembly in...
Finland/UNGA: Our Common Agenda a blueprint for more effective multilateralism
Finland/General Assembly. Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland, has told the 77th General Assembly that he ripple effects of the Russian Federation’s brutal war in Ukraine...
How about some world peace and a piece of chocolate?
“Would you like World´s Best News and some chocolate?” is an offer that not many could refuse, when thousands of volunteers approached commuters on...
Sweden donates COVID-19 vaccines to Somalia
Somalia has received more than one and a half million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Sweden and the Czech Republic.
On 27 August 2022, Somalia...
Denmark supports demining in Ukraine
Denmark has announced a contribution of US$1.6 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to strengthen Ukraine’s coordination of demining and the removal...
Olenivka: Former Icelandic foreign minister in a fact-finding mission
The Secretary-General has appointed Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir of Iceland as one of three members of a fact finding mission regarding the 29 July 2022...