Gunhild Vehusheia (born 1975 in

Grimstad Grimstad () is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Some of the villages in Grimstad include Eide, Espenes, Fevik, ...

) is a Norwegian lawyer and

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

leader. She served as President of the

Norwegian Women's Lobby The Norwegian Women's Lobby (NWL; no, italic=no, Norges kvinnelobby) is a feminist policy and advocacy organization in Norway, and is described as the country's "main, national, umbrella organization" for women's rights. NWL is inclusive, promot ...

, an umbrella organisation for the Norwegian women's movement with ten nationwide member organisations, from 2016 to 2017. She has formerly been executive director of the non-profit NGO Legal Advice for Women (JURK) and chairperson of the board of the Nordic Women's University. Gunhild Vehusheia holds a cand.jur. degree from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

from 2003, and was a lawyer at the law firm Salomon-Johansen from 2012 to 2015. She is currently a partner at the law firm Vive Advokater. She is known for representing children in court as well as for representing vulnerable groups such as victims of human trafficking and

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s. Vehusheia is a member of the executive board of the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ( no, italic=no, Norsk Kvinnesaksforening; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights thr ...

Landsstyret

and is a board member of Legal Advice for Women. She also lectures on

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls, usually by men or boys. Such violence is often con ...

Nord University Nord University ( no, Nord universitet; sma, Noerhte universitete; smj, Nuortta universitiehtta) is a state university in the Nordland and Trøndelag counties of Norway. The university has 11,000 students at study locations in Northern and Cent ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vehusheia, Gunhild 1975 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian lawyers Norwegian human rights activists Norwegian feminists People from Grimstad University of Oslo alumni Norwegian women lawyers Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people