Norwegian editor of Nordisk Psykologi (Nordic Psychology)

The campaign in Nordic and Baltic countries

In 2002 2003 a campaign against trafficking in women in the Nordic and Baltic countries was organised on the initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Mainstreaming disability has also been addressed within the framework of Nordic development cooperation.

The Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings has been formed.

Iceland's a Nordic country, so, like Norway, it's able to tap into the system.

Membership and advisory functions in various expert committees, including doctoral committees at Nordic universities.

The Nordic experience also belies conservatives claim that a large social welfare state weakens incentives to work and save. National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20 of national income, compared to around 10 in the US.

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week. In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

1994 1995 Editor of the Nordic Journal of International Law since then Member of its Editorial Board

Estonia actively participates in the fight against trafficking in human beings in the Nordic and Baltic region.

STOCKHOLM The Nordic countries economies are performing well, and a part of the reason is that they are gradually reforming their social model, adapting it to new realities in ways that respond to people s demands. But there is nothing uniquely Nordic about this change.

The Nordic countries were fully committed to ensuring that the forthcoming negotiations on a final text were successfully concluded.

One last example is that recently we, like last summer, we won the competition to design a Nordic national bank.

The Nordic Cochrane Group were trying to get a hold of the data on that to bring it all together.

Ida Elisabeth Koch, The Justiciability of Indivisible Rights , in Nordic Journal of International Law, 72 3 39, 2003, p. 29.

In that context, her Government strongly supported the activities of the Nordic Baltic Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance. Rather than relying mainly on income taxation, as in the US, the Nordic countries rely on value added taxation, which provides a relatively high amount of revenue with relatively low rates of evasion and few distortions to the economy.

The Committee requested more information about the activities of the Nordic Council of Ministers in the sphere of trafficking in women.

Cooperation on combating violence against women in the Nordic Baltic region had been intensive and fruitful, spawning numerous projects on various topics.

The Second meeting of Nordic and Baltic ministers of Justice, presentation Through transparency to an information society http meetinp.just.ee topic2_3.php?menyy t2

But other countries in Europe, notably the Nordic countries, are showing that it's possible to have a kick ass economy without being a workaholic.

Regional initiatives were reported by Iceland (the Nordic Baltic Campaign against Trafficking in Women) and Namibia (the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization).

The programme is supervised by Professor Kaare Aksnes and utilizes observations from the Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands (Spain).

The European Union, Japan, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and the United States have all provided substantial funding for many of the projects mentioned earlier.

To be sure, there are also differences among the Nordic states, with social welfare spending the highest in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden, and a bit lower in Finland and Iceland. Nevertheless, whereas the taxes at the national level in the United States are equal to around 20 of GNP, in the Nordic countries the ratio is more than 30 .

As a rule, the target countries are the Nordic countries, although information about women originating from Estonia has also been received from Spain, Italy, Greece and even Japan.

U. Kinis Through Transparency to an information society, presentation submitted to the Second Meeting of Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Justice, 2 November 2001, Tallinn http meeting.just.ee topic2_3.php?menyy t2.

The presentation also referred to the Helsinki process on globalization and democracy, as well as to efforts by Nordic countries to promote the human rights aspects of development within the World Bank.

The campaign began in 2002 with a joint three day seminar of the Nordic and Baltic countries Trafficking in Women the Modern Slave Trade , which dealt with different aspects of the issue.

The campaign against trafficking in women in the Baltic and Nordic countries and other measures helped to launch a debate in spring 2004 about the criminalization of the purchasing of sexual services.

A growing number of such centres of higher education now exist in various parts of the world, including New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America, the Nordic countries, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Mexico.

The project, called European Deep Sky Near Earth Objects Survey , was a joint initiative of the Spaceguard Foundation, the European Southern Observatory, ESA, the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association and seven European countries.

One is that, in graph after graph, we find the countries that do worse, whatever the outcome, seem to be the more unequal ones, and the ones that do well seem to be the Nordic countries and Japan.

The budget for the Nordic Baltic campaign against trafficking in women was 300,000 Danish kroner, which had been used between April 2002 and December 2003 to organize seminars in schools and for broadcasts to raise awareness of trafficking.

In spring and summer 2004 the survey Activities against trafficking in human beings in Estonia expert opinions and possible solutions was organised in cooperation of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Centre.

American conservatives argue that a large public sector is subject to inefficiency and mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic abuse, while the taxation needed to support it blunts economic efficiency. But each of these propositions is refuted by the Nordic experience.

Statements were made by the representatives of Spain, Algeria, Nigeria, Canada, Kenya, India, Japan, Morocco, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Russian Federation, China, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Sweden (on behalf of the Nordic countries), Mexico and the United States.

The Nordic countries are high tech leaders Spain has slashed its unemployment rate by half (it stood at 25 not so long ago) and the new members from Central and Eastern Europe are cruising briskly along a steady catch up path.

The Committee resumed its consideration of the item and heard statements by the representatives of Finland (on behalf of the Nordic Group), Uruguay, the Russian Federation, Myanmar, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, New Zealand, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Canada and Nepal.

At the end of 2003 it was decided to extend the campaign and in 2004 the Nordic Council of Ministers in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs carried out a follow up campaign Drugs, Prostitution, Trafficking from Gender Perspective .

Mr. Makarowski (Sweden) introduced the draft resolution on behalf of the original sponsors, including the Nordic countries, and said that the text was very similar to the one adopted on the same subject two years before but contained some new elements.

Central bankers, I believe, are underestimating the impact of this structural shift. In the more tech oriented economies, like the US, the United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries, there is a risk that traditional macroeconomic models will overestimate the cost pressure from labor.

Similarly, although social welfare spending is lower in the US than in the Nordic countries, its budget deficit as a share of national income is much larger. The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.

It arises partly from the fact that Russia is an imitation culture. Russia's first rulers were Nordic princes in the 860's, men invited to bring order to the country even then, or so it seems, Russians didn't trust themselves to rule themselves effectively.