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Norway's military conscription to be extended to women
June 16, 2013
Norway will soon become the only country in Europe to extend its military conscription to women in peacetime, after parliament reached agreement on the issue on Friday.All of the parties represented in parliament, with the exception of the small Christian Democrat party, agreed to back a proposal by the center-left government for a "gender neutral" military conscription. In practice, that means that Norway's mandatory one-year military service will be extended to women, probably as of 2015, acco