Norwegian Women's Lobby

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Norwegian Women's Lobby
Formation27 January 2014
Type
political advocacy
Membership
10 NGOs
Websitewww.kvinnelobby.no

The Norwegian Women's Lobby (NWL;

Beijing Platform for Action
and other fundamental international agreements relating to women's human rights. It works to integrate women's perspectives into all political, economical and social processes.

The implementation of the

CEDAW convention is a major focus for NKL, and it works to enhance the implementation, visibility and relevance of CEDAW within politics and society. It states that it "brings together both the key women’s organisations and the leading experts on women’s rights in Norway"[1] and that it has a focus on being a "cooperation partner for the government [and] to contribute to the representation of the Norwegian women's movement in international forums."[3]

NWL has ten member organizations with a total of nearly 50,000 members and was founded in 2014 by the Norwegian women's organisations on the initiative of the

German Women's Council and the CEDAW Alliance Germany, and the National Women's Council of Ireland. Its member organizations include the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association
, the oldest and largest women's organizations in Norway, respectively.

History

NWL's founding president Margunn Bjørnholt (right) with former NKF president Torild Skard

The Norwegian Women's Lobby was founded on 27 January 2014 by eight nationwide women's rights organisations and several experts on the initiative of the

Karin M. Bruzelius and Torild Skard. The establishment of NWL was in accordance with the recommendations of the government-appointed Gender Equality Commission, whose chair Hege Skjeie was actively involved with NWL.[4] Its founding president was Margunn Bjørnholt, a professor of sociology and the NKF President at the time. In 2017 Ragnhild Hennum, a professor of public law, pro-rector of the University of Oslo and director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
, was elected president of the organisation.

The founding organisations were described by the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud Sunniva Ørstavik as "the very foundation of the efforts to promote women's rights in Norway."[5] NWL is led by the executive board. The organisation is advised by an independent body of experts, the Expert Committee that includes some of Norway's main experts in this area, e.g. CEDAW expert Anne Hellum.[6]

From its establishment NWL worked to increase awareness and understanding of the CEDAW, promote the participation and influence of women’s organizations in political decision-making processes and address areas where gender equality efforts were lacking, such as gender budgeting.[7] In line with its human rights focus NWL opposes racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism.

Following negotiations between the Socialist Left Party and the Støre government, NWL was awarded government funding over the national budget.

The member organizations include Norway's oldest women's rights organization, the

Global South
. NWL by contrast has a broader focus on women's human rights nationally and internationally, with an emphasis on international human rights instruments.

In 2018 NWL and five other key NGOs organised the customary torchlight parade in Oslo in honour of that year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, who were awarded the prize for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.[8]

Activities

NWL works for the

Beijing Platform for Action.[9][1][5][10]

The Norwegian Women's Lobby has a particular focus on the

Karin Bruzelius.[11]

Expert Committee

NWL's expert committee is a permanent body of experts tasked with making policy recommendations in fields that affect women and girls and gender equality, and works under the sponsorship of the Norwegian Women's Lobby. Established in 2016, the expert committee was initially chaired by professor of sociology

Karin Bruzelius, professor of public law Anne Hellum, and professor of political science Hege Skjeie, the former chair of the government-appointed Gender Equality Commission. In 2020 Nita Kapoor, Helga Eggebø, Johanne Sundby and Mari Teigen were appointed to the committee.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "The Norwegian Women's Lobby – Norway's feminist policy and advocacy organization". NWL. Archived from the original on 2023-06-21. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  2. ISBN 978-3-030-84451-6
    . In contemporary Scandinavian countries, civil society is structured around one main, national, umbrella organization for women's, respectively, LGBTI+ people's rights (...) These organizations are: Sveriges kvinnolobby (Swedish Women's Lobby), Norges kvinnelobby (Norwegian Women's Lobby), RFSL in Sweden, LGBT Denmark, FRI in Norway, and Kvinderådet i Danmark (Danish Women's Council).
  3. ^ a b "Norges kvinnelobby – en paraplyorganisasjon for den norske kvinnebevegelsen". Archived from the original on 2023-06-19. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  4. ^ Norwegian Official Report 2011:18 "Struktur for likestilling" and Norwegian Official Report 2012:15 "Politikk for likestilling"
  5. ^ a b Gratulerer, Norges kvinnelobby! Archived 2014-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, 29 January 2014
  6. ^ a b "Expert Committee". kvinnelobby.no. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Norges kvinnelobby krever plass på statsbudsjettet". 10 November 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Fakkeltog for Nobels fredspris 2018". Norwegian Peace Council. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  9. ^ Beijing Platform for Action, United Nations
  10. ^ Norsk kvinnebevegelse slår seg sammen i ny lobby, Kureren, 29 January 2014
  11. ^ "Foreword," in Shadow Report to the CEDAW Committee, 2017: Supplementary information from the Norwegian Women’s Lobby to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in relation to the 9th Periodic Report of Norway, Norwegian Women's Lobby, 2017

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