The Fritt Ord Tribute
The Fritt Ord Tribute acknowledges remarkable efforts to promote free speech, often in connection with current affairs. Tributes are bestowed when someone deserves them, without any constraints on their number.
The Fritt Ord Tribute acknowledges remarkable efforts to promote free speech, often in connection with current affairs. Tributes are bestowed when someone deserves them, without any constraints on their number.
Norwegian Football Federation President Lise Klaveness is awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute for the brave, no-nonsense speech addressing human rights violations and discrimination she delivered at the international FIFA Congress in Qatar on Thursday, 31 March.
Utøya Island and CEO Jørgen Watne Frydnes are awarded the Fritt Ord Tribute for making the site of a terrorist attack and mass murder into an arena for knowledge, discussion and resistance.
Film-makers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune will be awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute for the TV series July 22nd, an eminent artistic contribution to critical reflection about the tragic event that occurred in Norway on 22 July 2011. The protagonists of this drama series are the people who worked at key institutions in Norway, a welfare state based on the rule of law: the public health service, the media, the school system, the church and politics.