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DT 10 / 2017

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How Norway crippled Nobel laureate ICAN by cutting vital funding

On Sunday the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. It is a slap in the face for Norway’s Blue-Blue government which brought the organisation to its knees two years ago by cutting all its funds. Norwegian aid accounted for almost 90 per cent of ICAN’s budget.

News December 08, 2017

OECD urges Finland to restore it ‘flagging’ development aid

Massive cuts have pushed Finnish aid to its lowest level in a decade, reports the OECD peer review of...

News December 07, 2017

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Gavi applauds MSF’s effort to break Pfizer vaccine monopoly in India

Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO of the vaccine alliance Gavi, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s legal...

News December 29, 2017

Aid cuts targeted process leading to UN ban on nuclear weapons, activists say

Actors working on disarmament are not buying the Norwegian government’s claim that it stopped funding...

News December 15, 2017

Norway’s push to count disarmament activities as aid blocked at the OECD

Despite several years of diplomatic efforts, Norway has failed to convince the OECD to allow disarmament...

News December 15, 2017

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Two Danish NGOs merge. Huge new child sponsorship actor targets public funds

Two Danish branches of international NGO alliances, Plan Denmark and BØRNEfonden - Children and Youth...

News December 08, 2017

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Maria Håkansson takes over the helm at Swedfund

The board of the aid-funded investor Swedfund has appointed Maria Håkansson as the new Chief Executive...

Business December 08, 2017

OECD refused to approve Norway’s bid to use aid to finance uranium transport to Iran

The OECD has rejected a Norwegian bid to have NOK 54 million in funding for the transport of natural...

News December 29, 2017

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WHO on MSF patent challenge: a win in India could save lives

MSF’s unprecedented legal challenge of the patent on Pfizer’s pneumonia vaccine Prevenar 13 in India...

Opinion December 15, 2017

‘Inadequate’ Swedish anti-corruption laws

Sweden is dragging its feet on implementation of the OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention. Despite “repeated...

Business December 29, 2017

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Guyana climate deal stalled: 6th year with no payments

The USD 250 million Norway-Guyana climate forest deal that began in 2009 was supposed to secure annual...

News December 15, 2017

Norway’s ODA grey zone

For the last seven years Norway has received a clear message from the OECD that nuclear disarmament efforts...

Opinion January 26, 2018

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