Brundtland gained a reputation for speaking out. In 1994 she spoke out at the World Population Conference in Cairo. Her speech was considered highly controversial as she spoke with great ...
Statement: The Elders warn today that a sustained ceasefire and recovery in Gaza are at risk if Israel ends cooperation with ...
La présidence de cette commission fut confiée à Gro Harlem Brundtland, alors Premier ministre de la Norvège et qui fut ensuite appelée à diriger l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS). Paru en 1987 ...
In 1981 Brundtland was elected Prime Minister at the age of only 42 - Norway's youngest Prime Minister and the first woman in the post. One of the first things she did was to introduce a 40% quota ...
Like Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the UK, Brundtland has a reputation for toughness. She thinks that, to be a leader, you need to be forceful and that no-one thinks twice when men ...
In Brundtland's family, politics was seen as important: her father, who was a doctor, twice served as a government Minister. At the age of seven, she was enrolled as a member of the Norwegian ...
My husband and children have to take a back seat." Brundtland is quite unusual in that she succeeded in combining politics and power with a family: she has had four children. She was only able to ...
Gro Harlem Brundtland is a former prime minister of Norway and director-general of the World Health Organisation (1998-2003), and a founding member of The Elders, an international non-governmental ...