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Óluva Klettskarð
Óluva Elin Klettskarð (born 24 June 1965) is a Faroese schoolteacher and politician. She was a member of the Løgting from 2015 to 2019. Early life and career Klettskarð was in Klaksvík on 24 June 1965, the daughter of Páll Klettskarð from Haraldssund and his wife Edith (born Stenberg) from Porkeri. The parents ran their own business in Klaksvík, and the father later became a fishing boat owner. From 1991 to 1996, she attended the University of the Faroe Islands, obtaining a degree in history and Nordic philology. Since 1997, she has been a teacher at Føroya Studentaskúli og HF-Skeið in Tórshavn. Political career Klettskarð has been chairman of the main board of Republic (Tjóðveldi) and a member of the party's working committee. She has been a member of the municipal council in Klaksvík from 2009 to 2016 and was a member of the Lagting for several election periods. For two weeks in the autumn of 2008, she was Minister of Culture before Tjóðveldi left the governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirið Stenberg
Sirið Stenberg (born 26 May 1968 in Vágur) is a Faroese politician. She finished her education as a nurse in 1994 and as a nurse in neonatalalogy in 1998 and as a nurse with special knowledge of children from 0-7 (''Heilsufrøðingur'' in Faroese, ''Sundhedsplejerske'' in Danish, a health care visitor who attends to and gives advice to the mothers and their small children in their homes). Since 2001 she has worked in the children's health care in Suðuroy. She took leave from this employment shortly after assuming office as a member of the Faroese parliament, the parliament is located in Tórshavn, two hours away by ferry from Suðuroy. From 2006-08 she was head master of the Health School of the Faroe Islands, which is located in Suðuroy. She is married to Jón Pauli Olsen, who was football manager of the Faroese women's national football team and social and health assistant, together they have three children. Political career She was elected to the Løgting The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Government Ministers Of The Faroe Islands
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Republic (Faroe Islands) Politicians
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Members Of The Løgting
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People From Klaksvík
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 29 – Tampere Ice Stadium, Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Páll Klettskarð
Páll Klettskarð (born 17 May 1990) is Faroese footballer who plays as a striker for KÍ and the Faroe Islands national team. International career He was called up to the Faroe Islands squad in February 2013 for a training camp held in Thailand and came on as a substitute in a friendly match against the Thailand U23 team. He made his official debut for the Faroe Islands in a World Cup qualifier against Ireland on 7 June 2013. In March 2023, Klettskarð was called up to the national team for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that would join the automatically qualified host team Germany in the UEFA Eur ... match against Moldova national football team, Moldova and the Friendly (sports), friendly against North Macedonia national football team, North Macedonia, his first national team call up since 2018. Honours In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Føroya Studentaskúli Og HF-Skeið
Føroya Studentaskúli og HF-Skeið is a high school in the valley of Hoydalar, outside Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat .... It has over 900 students enrolled. The institution is the Faroe Islands' eldest and biggest high school. History The school was founded in 1937. In 1962 it moved to Hoydalar. A new school for the high school is planned to be built now in Marknagil in Tórshavn, the project is called Marknagilsdepilin. It is scheduled to open in 2016. Studies structure Students under the age of 18 are enrolled for a 3-year period (Student). Older students can achieve a diploma after only a 2-year period (HF). The curricula and final exams vary between the two but the diplomas achieved after the finals are of equal valu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Háfoss
Kristina Háfoss (born ''Danielsen''; 26 June 1975) is a Faroese economist, lawyer, politician (Tjóðveldi) and former national swimmer for the Faroe Islands. She was Minister of Finance of the Faroe Islands from 2015–2019. She was elected for the Løgting again in 2019, but took leave from 1 February 2021 when she started in her new job as the Secretary-General of the Nordic Council. Background She lived in Copenhagen for the first four years of her life, while her father was studying and her mother was working. After that she grew up in the Faroe Islands, mostly in Argir, which today has grown together with Tórshavn. She is the daughter of John P. Danielsen from Klaksvík and Anna Helena Danielsen (born Zachariasen) from Tórshavn. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Louis Zachariasen from Kirkja on the small island Fugloy. He was a teacher but stopped teaching when he could not teach the children in the Faroese language. He was a politician for the Home Rule Party. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The Faroe Islands
The University of the Faroe Islands () is a state-run university located in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It consists of five faculties: Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sciences and History, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Health Sciences. The University offers bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. programs. The student body is relatively small (around 1000). The University organises an annual dissertation competition open to all students. The educational language of the university is Faroese, making it the only university in the world to conduct classes officially in the Faroese language. Some classes are taught in other languages. The University works closely with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Iceland for research projects and is a member of UArctic. History The University of the Faroe Islands was founded in 1965 by members of the Faroese Scientific Society, founded in 1952. Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
