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The significance of Sámi rights in the Nordic countries-an introduction
No full textSapmi, the motherland of the Sami people, is situated in four states: Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden. Lack of protection is particularly visible when it comes to interventions in pastures and nature areas caused by extractive industries and the establishment of wind power plants. Addressing these issues has for several years been under the focus of the Nordic Research Network for Sámi and Indigenous Law (NORSIL). In effect, governments are still lagging in terms of taking action for implementing the court decisions, and, as already mentioned and noted in several chapters, there remains discrepancies between the promises of national legislations and the realisation of the rights of the Sámi people in practice. The development of the protection of Sami culture over the last decades coupled with the novelty of the court rulings in the Nordic states, demonstrate that changes are taking place at the judicial levels.Peer reviewe
Dorothée Cambou and Øyvind Ravna (eds.) The Significance of Sámi Rights: Law, Justice and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries (Oxon: Routledge, 2024)
No full textThe Significance of Sámi Rights: Law, Justice and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries is a collection of academic chapters examining international law regarding Indigenous Peoples and its implementation in Sápmi. The chief editors, Dorothée Cambou and Øyvind Ravna, continue their strong track record of excellent in research on Sámi rights
Faster Access to New Knowledge through Continuous Publication
Get PDFPublished: January 2017Citation: Ø. Ravna. “Faster Access to New Knowledge through Continuous Publication.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 8, 2017, pp. 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v8.67
Three New Articles for Spring 2017: Cooperation and Impact Assessment in Extractive Industries and Implementation of Arctic Council Soft Law
Get PDF(Published: May 2017)Citation: Ø. Ravna. “Three New Articles for Spring 2017: Cooperation and Impact Assessment in Extractive Industries and Implementation of Arctic Council Soft Law.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 8, 2017, pp. 21–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v8.74
New perspectives on the right to land in the county of Finnmark
Get PDFI 1993 fremla Samerettsutvalgets rettsgruppe sin utredning om retten til land og vann i Finnmark. I utredningen, som var et viktig bakgrunnsmateriale for utvalget, ble det konkludert med at staten ikke bare eide all usolgt jord i Finnmark, men at det hadde vært en sammenhengende oppfatning om det i om lag 300 år. Sentralt for rettsgruppas standpunkt var historieutredningen til professor Gudmund Sandvik.
I denne artikkelen utfordres Sandviks konklusjoner, så vel som hans metodiske valg og forskningsmessige spørsmål, og det vises at med mer åpne spørsmål og en mer nyansert tilnærming til kildene ville utredningen trolig hatt et annet utfall. Det argumenteres for at det er mer sannsynlig at myndighetene lenge så på jorda langs fjordene og elvedalene i Finnmark som et udefinert jordfellesskap, med innslag av private, eneeide eiendommer, fremfor at jorda var statens eiendom.In 1993, the Sámi Right Committeeʼs Law Group presented its report on the right to land and water in Finnmark. In the report, which was important background material for the Committee, it was concluded that the state not only owned all unceded land, but that there had been a consistent opinion about it for 300 years. Central to the Law Groupʼs position was the historical investigation by Professor Gudmund Sandvik.
In this article, Sandvikʼs conclusions as well as his methodological choices and research questions are put to the challenge where it is shown that with more open questions and a more nuanced approach to the sources, the investigation would probably have had another outcome. The author argues that it is more likely that the authorities long viewed the fields along the fjords and river valleys in Finnmark as an undefined community of land, with elements of individually owned properties, rather than as the property of the state
Finnmarksloven er vedtatt. Om de vesentligste endringene i loven i forhold til regjeringens lovforslag i Ot.prp. nr 53 (2002-2003)
Get PDFThe Finnmark Act was recently approved in the parliament by a clear majority. A half-century discussion
concerning land rights of the Saami people has culminated in an Act concerning the «right to
land and water» in Finnmark County. The legislative history of the Act covers approximately 25
years, and started when the Saami Law committee was appointed in autumn 1980.
In this paper the author examines this legislative history, emphasizing the main changes in the
adopted act in relation the disputed bill to the parliament in spring 2003 (Ot.prp. nr. 53 (2002-2003).
Pursuant to the Act, a land commission and special tribunal will be established that will clarify
and settle land rights questions. The author observes that the land consolidation court, as proposed
by the Saami Law committee, is not given any place in the Act.
Finally, the author remarks that the changes from the bill of 2003, up to the adoption of the Act in
June this year, have led to an act which is a major step forward in giving the people in Finnmark
County rights to their natural resources and common land. The Act also represents strong support
for the land rights of the Saami people
Beiterettighetene ved Altevannsområdet
Get PDFBakgrunnen for temaet er dagens faktiske og rettslige tvist mellom den svenske samebyen Saarivuoma og norsk reindriftsforvaltning. Etter at reinbeitekonvensjonen av 1972, mellom Norge og Sverige, opphørte i 2005 har reindriftssamene fra Saarivuoma kommet tilbake til Altevannsområdet, det området de hadde fått erkjent rettigheter til i Rt. 1968 s. 429, men som de så mistet ved reinbeitekonvensjonen av 1972. Besvarelsen tar for seg de ulike rettskildene som er relevant som rettgrunnlag for svensksamenes beiterettigheter på norsk grunn. Stikkord her er Lappekodisillen av 1751, Lov om svensk reinbeiting i Norge og norsk reinbeiting i Sverige (endringslov 2005), rettigheter ervervet ved alder tids bruk og folkerettslige forpliktelser overfor samene som et urfolk
Sami law and rights in Norway – with a focus on recent developments
No full textThis chapter addresses the legal protection of the Sámi as Indigenous peoples in Norway and thus the laws that protect Sámi language, culture and way of life or, in other words, Sámi law. The chapter describes the development of Sámi law and Sámi legal protections over the past 30 years, with a primary focus on recent developments and current legal status. Through this review, the chapter summarises the latest advances in international law related to the Sámi, the process of surveying and recognising land rights in Finnmark (the most central Sámi area in Norway) and the latest amendments to the Reindeer Husbandry Act. Questions about the right to the usage, management and control of natural resources, or “land and water”, in the Sámi area of Norway therefore occupy a central place in this examination
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