Hege Storhaug

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Full Name	Hege Storhaug
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 21, 1962(1962-05-21)
Age	62
Birthplace	Arendal
Country	Norway
Birth City	Aust-Agder
Horoscope	Taurus

Hege Storhaug Biography

Hege Storhaug is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 21, 1962 in Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway. Hege Storhaug, a Norwegian journalist and author, was born 21 May 1962. Since the 1990s, she has been known for her criticisms of Islam and immigration and her women’s rights activism that highlighted Muslim women in particular. She has been the Human Rights Service’s information director since 2002. Her 2015 book Islam den 11. Landeplage was a hit in Norway. It has also been translated into many languages.

Storhaug was a key player in two documentaries that were produced by Rikets tilstand in 1998 and TV 2. They covered forced marriages and honor murders in Norway. The documentaries had a significant impact on Norwegian society. After that, she conceived and researched a documentary that revealed that Norwegian girls were subject to female genital destruction and that many imams supported the practice. This program aired on TV 2 on October 2000. It caused considerable outcry because the hidden cameras captured imams openly encouraging and supporting the practice. Storhaug published a 2002 report detailing nine possible honor killings in Norway between 2001 and 2002. Norske jenter omskjaeres was a documentary about female genital mutilation that won a SKUP diploma and the Gullruten award in 2001.

Storhaug’s 2006 book But the Greatest of These Is Freedom: On the Consequences of Immigration (title of the later English version), was praised by some critics and won the Southern Norway’s Literary Prize. However, only a total of 929 votes were cast, and there were five books nominated for the prize. A high-profile participant in media debates about forced marriage, honor killing, genital mutilation, Islam, and questions relating to the cultural impact and economic sustainability of large-scale immigration, her research and outspokenness led her to become increasingly more controversial.

In 2007 Storhaug was assaulted outside her own home and beaten unconscious with blows to the head by an unknown assailant. She did not go public with the story until 2010, initially wanting to keep it private and fearing it could scare likeminded activists, until changing her mind after an attack against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

As a protest against the Norwegian parliament building, Storhaug participated in a mock wedding with her then-girlfriend in 1990. Today, she is married.

Hege Storhaug Net Worth

Hege Storhaug is one of the richest Journalist from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hege Storhaug 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1984, she began her studies at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She graduated in 1987 as an athletic trainer. She studied sports biology and health from 1986 to 1987. Her paper on the prevalence of eating disorders in female athletes was based on that mapping. It was the first such mapping done in Norway and received a lot of attention. In the media, she spoke about her eating disorder as a young gymnast. This led to major public debate in Norway about the issue. She co-founded the Interest Group for Women with Eating Disorders and served as the information director and press officer from 1987 to 1990.

From 1989 to 1990, Storhaug was a journalist at Klassekampen, a left-wing newspaper. After completing her journalism degree at the Norwegian School of Journalism, she became a freelance journalist. Dagbladet published her first journalistic effort in 1992. It was about forced marriages among young Muslim women. She was shocked at her findings and adhered to left-wing antiracist beliefs before she began working on the story. This report led to Norway passing a law prohibiting forced marriages. She spent two years in Pakistan in the mid-1990s and wrote a book on her experiences. She has been to Pakistan 17 times since 2015, and many of her closest friends are there.

In 2002 Storhaug was involved in the Brennpunkt documentary Barnebruder – en ulykkelig historie for state broadcaster NRK, which uncovered the importation of child brides into Norway. The same year she co-founded and began as information director of the foundation Human Rights Service (HRS). Storhaug was later, in 2004 accused of having exerted undue pressure on the girls she had worked with for her documentaries. Among those who have praised Storhaug and HRS’s work is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who in the first article she published as a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute wrote that while most non- governmental organizations in Europe “are embarrassingly silent” on the struggle for human rights for Muslim women and girls, “there is one in Norway that pays attention, Human Rights Service, run by a brave, determined woman, Hege Storhaug.”

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Hege Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Norway. Hege Storhaug celebrates birthday on May 21 of every year.