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Same-sex marriage has been legal in Norway since 1 January 2009 when a gender-neutral marriage law came into force after being passed by the Storting in June 2008. Norway was the first Scandinavian country, the fourth in Europe, and the sixth in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada and South Africa.
Norway was the second country, after neighbouring Denmark, to offer registered partnerships to couples with many of the rights of marriage. In 2009, Norway became the sixth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada and South Africa. Legislation concerning adoption, gender changes for ...
1972 - Homosexuality in Norway was decriminalised in 1972. [5] 1993 - Same-sex civil unions were accepted by Norwegian law in 1993. [6] 2009 - The law legalizing same-sex marriage in Norway took effect on 1 January 2009. [7]
The organization works for equality and against all forms of discrimination based on gender or sexuality in Norway and in the rest of the world, as stated in the organization's policy paper. [9] It is a partner body of the Global Equality Fund run by the United States Department of State . [ 10 ]
Floystad, Ingeborg, "Women's history in Norway," in Karen M. Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall. Writing women's history: international perspectives (Indiana Univ Pr, 1991) pp 221–30; Hurrell, Greg. "Henrik Ibsen, Frederika Bremer, Marie Michelet and the Emancipation of Women in Norway." Nordic Notes 2 (1998).
Despite Norway's welcomed efforts by the UN, the number of victims of sex trafficking in Norway continues to rise, increasing from 203 to 292 victims from 2007 to 2009. [ 14 ] The Norwegian Government launched a plan in 2016 to reduce violence against women, called the Action Plan for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Foreign and ...
Image credits: National Geographic #5. The 'Spanish Flu' actually likely got its start in Kansas, USA. It's only called the Spanish Flu because most countries involved in WWI had a near-universal ...
Statistics from the year of 2000 found that divorce on the ground of legal separation accounted for the vast majority of divorces at 93.8%, divorce of the ground of de facto separation accounted for 4.3% of divorces, abuse accounted only for 0.3%, while for 1.6% the cause was unknown.