sociology and the NKF President at the time. In 2017 Ragnhild Hennum, a professor of public law, pro-rector of the University of Oslo and director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, was elected president of the organisation. NWL is inclusive and "works to represent the interests of all those who identify as women and girls." The organisation aims to promote women's human rights, based on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Beijing Platform for Action and other fundamental international agreements. Its member organisations include all the significant women's rights organisations of Norway and have been championing women's human rights since 1884; the founding organisations were described by the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud Sunniva Ørstavik as "the very foundation of the efforts to promote women's rights in Norway." As a civil society umbrella organisation, the Norwegian Women's Lobby only accepts nonpartisan organisations as members. The Norwegian Women's Lobby is led by an elected political leadership, the executive board. The organisation is advised by an independent body of experts, the Expert Committee that includes some of Norway's main experts in this area, e.g. CEDAW expert Anne Hellum and formerly Hege Skjeie. In line with its aim to represent the interests of all those who identify as women and girls, the Norwegian Women's Lobby is trans-inclusive and opposes transphobia and the anti-gender movement. NWL has stated that "NWL understands discrimination against girls and women in an intersectional perspective and is against, among other things, racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability discrimination," and that "as feminists, we fight for all girls and women – of course also for girls and women who are trans." NWL has further stated that "trans women are women and belong in the women's movement" and that "the women's movement fights for all girls and women." Helga Eggebø, a member of NWL's expert committee, was one of the authors of a report that documented that trans people experience significantly higher levels of discrimination in Norway. NWL and its member organizations supported Norway's Gender Recognition Act of 2016. During the 2021 session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, NKF's international parent organization, International Alliance of Women, hosted a forum on how the women's movement could strengthen feminist and queer solidarity and counter "anti-trans voices [that] are threatening feminist solidarity across borders". The Norwegian Women's Lobby has a particular focus