The Sámi Parliament election in Finland will not be repeated contrary to demands by some Sámi people. The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland ruled this week that the decision by the Sámi ...

HELSINKI - Finnish lawmakers approved on June 19 a long-awaited legal reform of the Sami Parliament that strengthens the rights of Europe’s only recognised native people to decide how they are ...

The government of Finland submitted a proposal to the Finnish parliament on the Sami parliament Act on Thursday. Cur. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Eye on the Arctic. Issues ...

There are around 10,000 Sami in Finland, a country of 5.5 million, with a third of whom those still living in the traditional Sami homeland areas. Since 1996 they have been represented by the ...

Finland: Sami Parliament in Finland call for reform to Reindeer Damage Act, Eye on the Arctic. Sweden: Budget cuts threaten Sami-language development, Indigenous leaders say, Eye on the Arctic.

Members of Parliament in Inari, northern Lapland, voted 15-3 with one abstention on Tuesday evening to approve the draft of the Sámi Parliament Act, which now proceeds to the Finnish Parliament ...

The run-up to the Sami Parliament elections on October 4 has seen a tussle over voting rights emerge in the Lapland community. The latest flare-up came Wednesday when Finland’s Supreme Administrative ...

A dispute over the rights of the Sami people living in the Finnish Arctic has brought the frictions in Finland's coalition government into sharp focus just months before a parliamentary election.

The UN Human Rights Committee two decisions Friday finding Finland violated the political rights of representatives to the Sámi parliament by improperly enlarging the electoral roll of eligible ...

According to the sisters and the Sámi Parliament — the representative body for Sámi peoples in Finland — while the state’s geological agency met with that reindeer herding cooperative to ...

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said she's sorry for delays in acting on new human rights legislation for indigenous Sámi people. It comes after Euronews highlighted ongoing problems with the ...

The Sámi Parliament in Finland has voted to approve the draft of a controversial piece of legislation that would make sure their right to self-determination is enshrined in Finnish law. The Sámi are ...