In October 2024, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UNCESCR) issued a landmark decision ...

Only the indigenous Sami people may legally hunt moose in Laponia. As a result, the animals grow larger there than in other regions of Sweden. Photograph by Erlend Haarberg “We Sami live a ...

Sámi homelands, known as Sápmi, stretch across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and the report’s authors highlight that climate change threatens Sámi people in two ways ...

among the reindeer herding communities of Sweden and Norway. She’s a Sami – the largest indigenous group of people in Europe – and one of a few who herd reindeer using yoik, a traditional ...

The Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara—who explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous ...

Approximately 50,000 to 100,000 Sami people live in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Some live outside the actual Sami regions, for example in capital cities. Sami studies is also focused on ...

"Climate change threatens the culture and existence of the Sami indigenous people in two ways," it said ... Norway, Russia and Sweden. The report -- entitled "Just transition or 'green colonialism'?" ...