NCA has been asked to head up the civil society component of the international donor conference that Norway and the UN are organizing on sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises.
No religion supports the practice of genital mutilation in their writings. Rather, both the Qur'an and the Bible emphasise that all human beings are created in the image of God. Yet hundreds of thousands are mutilated each and every year.
Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons in armed conflicts and a vast number of victims are men. NCA works with male survivors and we highlighted this important issue at the Nobel Peace Center. Learn more here.
For ten years, religious leaders and activists have campaigned at the world's largest annual mining conferences. Last week in Cape Town we saw that it can take time, but change is possible!
The Board of Norwegian Church Aid is happy to announce the appointment of Dagfinn Høybråten (60) as the new General Secretary. “This continues the engagement I have had in my life with the fight against poverty, for human value and responsible manageme...
The third ACT Assembly was held in Uppsala, Sweden in 2018. Here you can find the public statements approved during the meeting.
It is a great pleasure that Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2018.
-Based on a thorough process, the Board of Directors express their lack of confidence in Anne-Marie Helland. Consequently, both parties have come to an agreement that she will resign with immediate effect, states Chairperson Kjetil Aano.
Norwegian Church Aid is now an official member of NetHope, after a vote held on April 4th.
As of January 2018, 1.9 million people are displaced and more than 7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in the three most affected states in Northeast Nigeria, Borno being the hardest hit state.