At the occasion of an official visit of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Norway to the European Court of Human Rights on 18 March 2019 Congress-Vice-President and President of the Chamber of Regions, Gunn Marit HELGESEN had an opportunity to inform Crown Prince HAAKON about the grassroots work of the Congress for democracy and human rights.
Mrs HELGESEN referred to the Crown Prince’s role as United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals and underlined the concrete contribution of the Congress to the SDGs 5 – Gender equality, 11 Sustainable cities and communities, and 16 – peace, justice and strong institutions. “Achieving SDG 11 requires good local governance and democratic institutions supporting it – which is SDG 16".
"It also requires full and equal participation of women in the process, in the spirit of SDG 5.”, said Gunn Marit Helgesen, underlining that mayors and councillors working in the Congress were firmly committed to the SGDs. This complements the work done by the intergovernmental sector and the whole Council of Europe in this respect.
