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Addressee: UN Treaty Bodies and Member States

Paragraph #82Session #8 (2009)

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The Permanent Forum recommends that the relevant treaty bodies take into account the Declaration and urges States to include information regarding its implementation in their reports to the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council.

Responses

Finland reports (2010): Finland was reviewed in the first session of the Universal Periodic Review. Information about the ratification process of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was included in the report. The report discussed the rights of the Sámi as an indigenous people including the rights of the Sámi to the regions traditionally used by them, the linguistic and cultural rights of the Sámi and discrimination faced by the Sámi as an indigenous people.

Final Report of UNPFII Session 8 (2009)

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Human rights