Iceland Votes for a New Parliament

Voting to elect a new parliament began in Iceland on Saturday, which opinion polls suggest is likely to unseat the ruling ...
Iceland briefly believed it had made history by electing Europe's first female-majority parliament - before a recount showed it had just fallen short. Some 30 of the 63 seats (47.6%) were won by ...
Iceland's parliament agreed on 23 July to break for the summer without having passed a controversial bill to guarantee repayment of billions lost in Icelandic accounts to Britain and the ...
Iceland is one of the most socially progressive countries in the world, so it's perhaps unsurprising that the country's female MPs already breastfeed their babies in parliament. Now ...
(JTA) — Lawmakers from four political parties in Iceland introduced a bill in parliament that would ban the nonmedical circumcision of boys younger than 18 and impose imprisonment of up to six ...
Around 90% of Iceland's female workforce went on strike in 1975, seeking to highlight the importance of women to the economy. The strike prompted the country's parliament to pass an equal pay law ...
No matter your reason for visiting, Iceland offers visitors a vast selection ... of Icelanders as it was the site of the world's first parliament. The Althingi was established by Viking settlers ...