Opinion | In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
Opinion | In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
Opinion | In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? (Guardian, 2025-08-21)
… the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) ... is the largest single investor in the world.
#Norway also purports to have a human-rights-based foreign policy, …
In April this year, the UN’s special rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese warned that Norway’s sovereign wealth fund had investments in Israeli arms companies and was a “major European source of investment for Israel’s ongoing occupation”... The Norwegian minister of finance ... rebuffed Albanese, but many Norwegian NGOs stepped up the pressure.
The government has now announced that the #GPFG will divest from 17 Israeli companies, ...
… with the country heading for a general election on 8 September, the issue ... is converting a moral dilemma into a political turning point...
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