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Plenary 2013–17 Aerial photo of the parliament. The Sámi Parliament of Norway (Norwegian: Sametinget, Northern Sami: Sámediggi [ˈsaːmeˌtiɡːiː], Lule Sami and Pite Sami: Sámedigge, Ume Sami: Sámiediggie, Southern Sami: Saemiedigkie, Skolt Sami: Sääʹmteʹǧǧ) is the representative body for people of Sámi heritage in Norway.
Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer. Energy ...
In the previous election, held on 11 September 2017, the Norwegian Sámi Association, with former President of the Sámi Parliament Aili Keskitalo as their presidential candidate, won a plurality, with 18 of the 39 seats, including 2 on a joint list with the Sami People's Party. [1]
Sami Parliament of Sweden. The Sami Parliament of Sweden was established on 26 August 1993 in Giron (Kiruna). It has 31 representatives, elected every four years by general vote. The parliament is run by the Swedish Riksdag, therefore its actions must comply with decisions of the Riksdag, [13] which sometimes go against the elected Sámi ...
OSLO (Reuters) -An Indigenous Sami activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament on Monday to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by Sami reindeer herders ...
Seven of the activists who repeatedly have demonstrated against a wind farm in central Norway that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer met with the ...
Sandra Andersen Eira (born 21 June 1986) [1] is a fisherwoman [2] and Norwegian Sámi politician from Russenes in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. [3] As of 2024 she is serving in the Ukrainian Marine Corps.
Though Norway’s supreme court in 2021 ruled that two wind farms built at Fosen violated Sami - indigenous people of northern Norway - rights under international conventions, but the turbines ...