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Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution tabled by Iceland and Germany to set up an international independent fact-finding mission to investigate ongoing human rights violat...

Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, hosted a workshop earlier this week where attendees discussed opportunities for improve...

Oslo, Norway, 23 November 2022 Today, representatives of the Northern Group – comprising Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the...

The Nordic Ministers of Defence and representatives met in Oslo today to discuss the grave security situation in Europe, the war in Ukraine, Nordic defence cooperation and the incoming Finnish and Swe...

Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met in Edinburgh on 9-10 November. During the Ministerial, the security situation in Europe, support to Ukraine and collective approaches to se...

Today the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs met with Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, who is in Iceland for the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders. The Minister and the Exec...

Iceland took formally over the Presidency of the Council of Europe from Ireland today at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg. This is the third time Iceland assumes the Presidency o...

On Friday, 11 November, the Immigration Council will host an open presentation on the Development Fund for Immigration Issues, and the application process, this year’s focus points and the Fund’s...

The fourth Summit in the history of the Council of Europe will be held in Iceland on May 16-17, 2023. The Prime Minister of Iceland and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland today announced...

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has presented the programme for the Icelandic Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2023. The Prime Minister presented the one-year Presidency programme ...

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Immigration Council invite applications for grants from the Development Fund for Immigration Issues. The Fund's purpose is to enhance research and de...

The Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate has issued an english translation of its energy report — The State and Challenges of Energy Affairs with reference to the government‘s climate...

Sixteen female foreign ministers met online on 20th October to discuss the serious human rights violations taking place in Iran, not least against women and children. Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadó...

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has issued a report on the status of the HF-Fund. The report sets out scenarios for possible evolution of the fund over the coming decades, given assumed c...

Today, the prime minister of Greenland Mr. Múte B. Egede and the Prime Minister of Iceland Ms. Katrín Jakobsdóttir signed a declaration in Reykjavik on future cooperation between the two countries. In...

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir convenes the 2022 Gender Equality Forum in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center on October 26th. The theme for discussion will be the status of women of foreign ...

Following the deliberate damage caused to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, today Defence Ministers of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) met virtually to share assessments of the blatant ...

The Nordic defence ministers issued the following statement after a virtual meeting on 30 September 2022: We, the Nordic Ministers of Defence are deeply concerned about the damage to the Nord Stream p...

The efforts of every country to safeguard the multilateral system were the guiding principles in Minister Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjord Gylfadóttir's first annual address to the United Nations General Ass...

On 11 August, Defence Ministers of 26 nations met in Copenhagen for a conference jointly hosted by Ukraine, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. The conference, organised to complement the efforts of the ...