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Hadia Tajik’s book “Freedom: A Political and Personal History”, which is published by Tiden Publishing House, is scheduled to be released on Friday, but various outlets have gained access to the book on Thursday night.
NRK has gained access to the book, where Tajikistan defends how it handled the warnings against its former deputy colleague Trond Giske.
Tajik writes that on December 20, 2017, she was informed by a close employee that she had submitted a formal notification to the leadership of the Labor Party secretariat at the Storting. The warning concerned alleged sexual harassment and was related to Trond Giske.
Aftenposten was the first to mention the case.
– A moral duty
Tajik reacts in the book to various media outlets who write that she was the one who relayed the first warnings about Giske to the “right body”, saying that the woman sent the warning before telling Tajik about it.
“What is correct is that I have ensured that concerns and information about unacceptable behavior reach those who need to follow up. The pleasure is mine.”
Tajik writes that anyone who receives information about something worthy of criticism has both a legal and a moral duty to address it, or to pass it on to those who should.
He says that at the same time he was informed of the warning on December 20, he saw an assessment of the warning by an attorney and an organizational psychologist.
“I had no reason to doubt what he said. I still don’t have that,” Tajik writes.
After reviewing several warnings against Giske, the Labor Party concluded in January 2018 that the deputy leader had violated the party’s guidelines against sexual harassment.
Giske regretted his behavior in some of the cases, but has always disagreed that he was behind the sexual harassment. He believed that the party’s conclusion on the violation of the guidelines should be reversed.
Believe that metoo is more than an abuse of power
Tajik writes about the discussions that metoo created and believes that metoo is more than people with power to not abuse their power.
“The discussions should be as much about how the people in a position to do so can set up safe workplaces and organizations. Some of that security is also created by standing up for those who are vulnerable.”
According to the editor, the common thread of the book is freedom in various areas of Norway today, and Tajik writes about, among other things, freedom of expression, religion, choice of school, freedom in working life, centralization vs. decentralization, health and biotechnology law.
She also tells about her own upbringing as the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, born into the Norwegian working class with a mother who worked in the store and a father in the oil industry and about her growth in the Biblical belt Bjørheimsbygd in Rogaland.
(NTB)
