Human Development Report 2011- How is Malawi performing?

News and events // Last updated: 14/12/2011 //

In November United Nations presented the Human Development Report for 2011 in Lilongwe. How did Malawi perform compared to its neighbours?

News and events // Last updated: 06/12/2011 //

The Norwegian Embassy in Lilongwe is one out of six Norwegian pilot Embassies on gender. This means that the Embassy gets financial support from Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) to strengthen its work on gender. This year the support was used to train its employees on gender issues. Thus, for two days local and diplomatic staff at the Embassy participated at a gender trainin...

News and events // Last updated: 01/12/2011 //

What happens when Norway unites with CELA (Centre for Legal Assistance) to fight for gender equality in the Malawian society?

Press Release: Norwegian UN initiative strengthens the right of peaceful protest

News and events // Last updated: 25/11/2011 //

Norway’s initiative has resulted in the unanimous adoption of a resolution in the UN General Assembly on strengthening the protection of human rights defenders and the right of peaceful protest. “This UN resolution throws into sharp relief the use of force against protesters that we are seeing in a number of countries. It strengthens our hand when we seek to make governments accountable for...

News and events // Last updated: 08/11/2011 //

Ten Sing Norway arrives in Malawi this week! The Norwegian choir is travelling from Nairobi to Durban via Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana with African youth to inform locals along the way about the upcoming COP17 in Durban and the danger of climate change.

News and events // Last updated: 01/12/2011 //

“This is a day of hope” Malawi’s Finance Minister, Dr. Lipenga, announced Wednesday last week. The reason for hope relates to the newly signed agreements between the Malawian government and the British, the Irish and the Norwegian governments on financial support to secure the food harvest the next years.

News and events // Last updated: 01/12/2011 //

Rural girls are among the most excluded groups in Malawi and a large number of adolescent girls are faced with gender discrimination and inequality. This is why Norway decided to sign a Joint UN Programme on Adolescent Girls with UNFPA in collaboration with UNICEF and WHO on Friday the 25th of November 2011.

Photo: Royal Norwegian Embassy/Marte Løvald Andresen

News and events // Last updated: 15/11/2011 //

What happens when 160 African and Norwegian youth gather together to fight for climate justice?

News and events // Last updated: 04/11/2011 //

Fra 18-20 oktober var flere nordiske parlamentarikere på plass i Malawi for å få innsikt i og lære med om Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance). Sammen med to ansatte i GAVI Alliance var to representanter fra Norge og en fra Finland med ut i felten for å fylle på med kunnskap.

Human Trafficking in the Malawian context

News and events // Last updated: 02/11/2011

“A study done by Norwegian Church Aid and its local partners in Malawi has shown that Malawi is both a country of origin and a transit country for trafficking.” These were the Norwegian Ambassador Asbjørn Eidhammer`s opening remarks on the three day seminar called “Human Trafficking Best Practices Regional Conference” in Lilongwe.

Let there be northern lights

Visit Norway // Last updated: 22.08.2009

The North Cape in Finnmark is one of many good places in Northern Norway to see the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis.

Norway values cultural preservation in Malawi

News and events // Last updated: 08/11/2011

How can we preserve Malawi`s cultural heritage? What has already been done and what are the future possibilities and needs? These were questions raised when the Norwegian Embassy in Lilongwe in cooperation with COSOMA (Copyright Society of Malawi) organized a one-day seminar on promotion of cultural preservation of Malawi`s culture at the Peacock hotel in the City Centre of Lilongwe.

Norway recognises the National Transition Council in Libya as the legitimate governing authority

News and events // Last updated: 30/08/2011

“Norway recognises that the National Transition Council (NTC) is at this stage the legitimate governing authority in Libya and will deal with it accordingly,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Human Development Report 2011- How is Malawi performing?

Gender on the agenda for the Embassy staff

Norway supports better prison conditions for women and youth

Press Release: Norwegian UN initiative strengthens the right of peaceful protest

Ten Sing Norway in Malawi

A day of hope

Norway and UN join hands to improve the situation for adolescent girls

Entertaining climate change concert in Lilongwe

Besøk av nordiske politikere i Malawi

Human Trafficking in the Malawian context

Let there be northern lights

Norway values cultural preservation in Malawi

Norway recognises the National Transition Council in Libya as the legitimate governing authority

Royal Norwegian Embassy in Lilongwe