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Finland's Sanna Marin apologises for lack of action on rights of indigenous Sámi people
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 Sámi Parliament Act, which Marin’s government had promised to pass in their current legislative programme. Four of the five parties in government are understood to support…
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'Sad, angry, betrayed and empty': Sanna Marin's human rights legislation for indigenous Sámi fails
A flagship piece of legislation that Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin had staked her reputation on, is now dead in the water. The Sámi Parliament Act sets out how the Finnish government interacts with the Sámi legislative assembly on matters that affect indigenous communities. The revised law, which Marin had framed as an important human rights…
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Sanna Marin's government could collapse, as Sámi human rights laws stalled
Three weeks ago, nobody in the Finnish government was talking about rights for Sámi, the EU’s only recognised indigenous people. Few Finns even knew — or cared to know — there were any problems with a stalled piece of human rights legislation. But now it’s a subject that’s regularly leading news bulletins, prompting ministers to…