Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide spoke about human rights, equality and the fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation in his address at the Oslo Freedom Forum on May 14th.

In 2012, 53 per cent of those who were granted Norwegian citizenship were women. The proportion of women was particularly high among immigrants from the Philippines and Thailand.

This is the clear challenge from Managing Director Kari Nygaard. The Norwegian Institute for Air Research has achieved good results with this approach.

In order to ensure legal rights for surrogate children already in Norway, the tax office, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Organisation and the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs have received new guidelines concerning how to process cases related to surrogate mothers in accordance with today's legislation.