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Factsheet - Maternal Mortality

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 5: IMPROVING MATERNAL HEALTH The challenge – Making pregnancy safer Statistics on maternal disabilities and illnesses are appalling in countries with high mortality, with often life long disabilities in survivors. For

Factsheet - newborn mortality

TACKLING NEWBORN DEATH AND ILLNESS The challenge: Making it through the first day Until recently, there has been little effort to tackle the specific health problems of newborn babies. Most of their deaths are unrecorded and remain invisible. A lack

Factshhet - child mortality

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4: REDUCING CHILD MORTALITY The challenge – accelerating child survival Latest figures show that 9.7 million children under-five are dying every year, down from over 12 million in 1990 Most of these children are dying in

The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals

The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals

Global Campaign to Reduce Maternal and Child Deaths

At the Clinton Global Initiative in New York in September 2007, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway led the launch of a global campaign to save the lives of millions of women and children. On behalf of Norway, Prime Minister Stoltenberg

The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals

The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals Progress Report - April 2008 (Download the report in PDF)

Binding climate policy

Norway will work to promote a more comprehensive and ambitious international climate change agreement to follow the Kyoto Protocol. Norway will continue to fulfil its obligations and reduce greenhouse gas emissions both nationally and

UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing in poor countries. The group was established by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2010, and is tasked with

Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative

Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative was launched by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007. One of the key aims is to incorporate reduction of emissions from deforestation and

Joint statement with the Prime Minister of Norway

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today welcomed Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to Australia.

Political Statement: The Mexican-Norwegian Proposal on Climate Funding

The recent debate has focused mainly on the goals the world needs to reach in order to fight climate change, but little has been said about the means of reaching those goals. It is vital that we find a mechanism to provide the resources needed to

The Mexican-Norwegian Proposal on Climate Change Financing

THE JOINT MODEL To achieve an ambitious outcome in Copenhagen financing will need to be scaled up significantly and urgently, starting fast and rising over time. Mexico and Norway now launch a joint model (see chart) that has the potential for

Joint statement on climate and forest issues

The President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, met in Oslo today. They agreed on the need to keep climate change firmly at the top of the international agenda and underlined that it is essential to reach

Erna Solberg’s government appointed

Following the resignation tendered by Jens Stoltenberg’s second government 14 October, the King in a Council of State session at 10 am today accepted the resignation as of 12.00 noon today. At the same time, the King appointed Erna Solberg’s

Stoltenberg’s second government tenders its resignation

Jens Stoltenberg’s second government today at 13.00 tendered its resignation in an extraordinary session of the Council of State at the Royal Palace. The King requested the government to continue as a caretaker government until a new government has

Stoltenberg says his government will resign

Following the presentation in the Storting (Parliament) of the state budget for 2014, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg this morning asked for the floor to state that his government will tender its resignation in an extraordinary session of the

To the Editor: Prime Minister to inform the Storting on Monday

On Monday 14 October at approximately 10.40, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will ask for the floor in the Storting after the presentation of the budget proposal, to inform the Storting that his government will tender its resignation. This will take

Norwegian Prime Minister congratulates the OPCW on the Nobel Peace Prize

“I congratulate this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The OPCW has achieved almost universal adherence to the ban on these weapons, which cause terrible human suffering,” said Prime

Changes among the state secretaries

In today’s session of the Council of State the King has honourably discharged three from their offices as of 1 October 2013: Ms. Tone-Helen Toften in the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs, Mr. Geir Pollestad in the

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg: Speech at High-Level Event: Millennium Development Goals and Post 2015

UN General Assembly 2013.

By Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg