Elokapina - Extinction Rebellion Finland regrets and finds it shameful that the Sámi Parliament Act revision was effectively killed yesterday by Constitutional Law Committee.

This makes Sanna Marin's government a third Finnish govt which fails to revise the current law. The law has been condemned e.g. by the majority on the Sámi Parliament, the UN Human Rights Council and UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

More here:
euronews.com/2023/02/24/sad-an…

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'Sad, angry, betrayed and empty': Sanna Marin's human rights reforms for indigenous Sámi fails

Finland's right-wing parties decided there wasn't enough time for a parliament committee to discuss the new Sámi rights laws.

^{David Mac Dougall (Euronews.com)}