Claim: Gunnar Bergby, a Norwegian retired former civil servant, represented Norway in the CEDAW Committee Membership.
Evidence: Gunnar Bergby (born 28 August 1947) is a Norwegian retired former civil servant. In 2016 the Norwegian government nominated him as a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, a UN body of experts on discrimination against women, and he was subsequently elected to this committee. He served one term on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; his nomination over a more qualified woman and after the Foreign Ministry had ruled out even considering a woman was controversial and was widely condemned by the women's rights movement and the legal community in the Nordic countries as discriminatory towards women in itself, and was described as an example of radical gender quotas which are banned in Norway.