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50% Of Women In Shelters Foreign Born
Yesterday, the campaign Á allra vörum (On everyone’s lips), was launched to raise money for the women’s shelter Kvennaathvarfið. Last year, 116 women who had suffered domestic abuse stayed at the shelter. The campaign will run for two weeks and will be…
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So What’s This Presidential Election I Keep Hearing About
[EDITOR’S NOTE: In his New Year’s address yesterday, January 1, 2016, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announced he would not be seeking re-election this year]. The campaign for next year’s presidential election has commenced, and it could not have started in a more bizarre…
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FM: Nothing Wrong With Accepting Contributions
Companies within the fisheries industry donated around 16 million ISK to campaigns in the last election, reports RÚV. Roughly 90% of that money went to the Independence Party and Progressive Party, who are now Iceland’s ruling coalition. Finance Minister, Bjarni Benediktsson –…
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Pippa’s Wish
A particularly heart-warming story made the rounds recently when a crowdfunding campaign called “Pippa’s Wish” hit its required target, after a month online. The GoFundMe campaign was started by family friend Tamara Antonelli Comerford to take Pippa—a disabled seven-year-old Sigur Rós fan…