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Finland chooses Kirkenes in Norway for new Arctic railway terminal

9 March 2018 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, economy, environment, europe, Kirkenes, Northern Sámi, Norway, Oulu, Rovaniemi, sami rights

The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications has decided that a railway routing to the Arctic Ocean via Oulu, Rovaniemi

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Ombudsman hopes for Sami rights ratification after election

27 March 201530 March 2015 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments international labour organization, legislation, ombudsman, sami rights

25 years after the UN’s International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Convention No. 169 was approved, Finland’s Parliament was supposed to ratify it

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