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A new Act on e-cigarettes and refillcontainers will take effect on 1 March 2019. The Act is based on the Bill presented by the Minister of Health on the import, marketing, use and safety of these prod...

Following an amendment to the Act on Organ Donation adopted by the Icelandic parliament Althingi, in the future a deceased person will be presumed to have consented to cadaveric organ donation unless ...

This is the name of a new agency, established by a decision of the Minister of Social Affairs and Equality, which commenced work in May 2018. Initially the Inspectorate will be responsible for adminis...

More than half of women aged 25–64 had tertiary education compared with just over third of men at the same age in 2017. Around 56% of women and 43% of men in the capital region had tertiary education ...

Statistics Iceland has published the leaflet Women and Men in Iceland 2018 in cooperation with the Centre for Gender Equality and The Ministry of Welfare. The leaflet has information on the status of ...

Statistics Iceland’s analysis on the gender pay gap, in cooperation with an action group on equal pay appointed by the government and the social partners, shows a narrowing gender pay gap during the p...

A bill of law (amendments to the Gender Equality Act No. 10/2008) was passed by the Icelandic Parliament (Althingi) with a vast majority on June 1st 2017 and came into force on January 1st 2018. Compa...

All children under 18 years of age are entitled to free dental care under an agreement concluded between Icelandic Health Insurance and the Dentists’ Association of Iceland. To be eligible, children m...

A bill of law (amendments to the Gender Equality Act 10/2008 ) that was submitted by the Minister of Social Affairs and Equality and passed by the Parliament with vast majority on June ...

The Icelandic Ministry of Welfare considers it urgent to present the following facts due to incorrect and misleading information which has repeatedly been spread abroad concerning the birth of childre...

The 1st of May 2017 a new payment system for health care was introduced. The main goal is to increase equality between individuals, regardless of health status, and to reduce the burden of high e...

Are the Nordic Welfare States Ready for Future Risks?  How can we prepare?    The Nordic Welfare Watch final conference in Iceland 10th of November 2016 in Hilton Reykjavík Nordica The ...

Volunteer Organizations in Disaster  at the Nordic House on April 25th.

Siv Friðleifsdóttir, chair of the Welfare Watch, presented the Icelandic and Nordic Welfare Watch at the conference where the main topic was "How can work, welfare and culture be combined?" Here you c...

An official website for the project Welfare consequences of financial crises has been launched, www.welfarecrisis.hi.is. The website includes information about the project, statistical information, re...

Safety 2016 to be held in Tampere, Finland, on 18 - 21 September 2016. The main theme for the conference is “From research to implementation”. Further information...

The interdisciplinary research project Changing Disasters is happy to announce the first Northern European conference on emergency and disaster studies. Further information...

An open lecture were the main projects of the Nordic Welfare Watch will be presented, will be held at the Nordic house, Thursday September 17th from 12.00-13.15. The Nordic Welfare Watch is a part of...

A century of accidents and catastrophes in Denmark - on land, sea and in the air. On August 20, 2015. More information

The Nordic Welfare Wath - in Response to Crisis) and NSSA (The Nordic Social Security Academy) co-hosted the symposium Social Services in Times of Disaster in Reykjavík, May 4-5, 2015. The objective ...