{"id":346088,"date":"2018-01-30T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norways-new-government-grilled-for-lack-of-diversity\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T23:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:18:34","slug":"norways-new-government-grilled-for-lack-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norways-new-government-grilled-for-lack-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s New Government Grilled for \u2018Lack of Diversity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Among the 68 ministers and secretaries in Norway\u2019s new government, only two appear to be of minority background, despite one in six Norwegians currently being of immigrant background. This overwhelming \u201cwhiteness\u201d has triggered fierce criticism from human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous human rights organizations and critics, including the Norwegian Center Against Racism, have slammed Prime Minister Erna Solberg\u2019s newly-formed cabinet for\u00a0failing to \u201creflect the population.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Vi \u00f8nsker statsr\u00e5d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jantoresanner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jantoresanner<\/a> lykke til i nytt departement og \u00f8nsker Monica M\u00e6land velkommen til oss som ny kommunal- og moderniseringsminister. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wqsh1cGSqE\">pic.twitter.com\/Wqsh1cGSqE<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Kommunal- og moddep (@km_dep) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/km_dep\/status\/953631323259797505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rune Berglund Steen, who is the head of\u00a0the NGO, went so far as\u00a0to say that the \u201clack of\u00a0diversity\u201d represented a \u201cdemocratic problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Trump\u2019s government has more people with\u00a0ethnic minority backgrounds than\u00a0the Norwegian government,\u201d Steen told national broadcaster NRK, venturing that those in\u00a0power must reflect the general population and suggesting that a failure to\u00a0do so constituted a severe problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Den utvidede regjeringen har f\u00e5tt blomster og gratulasjoner p\u00e5 Slottsplassen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erna_solberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@erna_solberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Siv_Jensen_FrP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Siv_Jensen_FrP<\/a> og <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trinesg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Trinesg<\/a> presenterer dem p\u00e5 en pressekonferanse klokka 14.45: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XA9dGtblEW\">https:\/\/t.co\/XA9dGtblEW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B6xqo9L0NT\">pic.twitter.com\/B6xqo9L0NT<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 SMK (@Statsmin_kontor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Statsmin_kontor\/status\/953620461040087040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steen stated that diversity in\u00a0politics was \u201chealthy\u201d and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/too-white-norways-new-government-grilled-for-lack-of-diversity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 68 ministers and secretaries in Norway\u2019s new government, only two appear to be of minority background, despite one in six Norwegians currently being of immigrant background. This overwhelming \u201cwhiteness\u201d has triggered fierce criticism from human rights activists. Numerous human rights organizations and critics, including the Norwegian Center Against Racism, have slammed Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}