forest rights

Greenpeace exposes Finland's hypocrisy on human rights

Last edited 15 March 2005 at 9:00am
15 March, 2005

Angeli, Finland. 15 March 2005
Today, as local reindeer herders and Greenpeace activists defended the forest rights of indigenous Sàmi people in Arctic Lapland, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs was busy abroad painting a rosy picture of Finland's human rights policy. Campaigners placed demarcation signs in an area of winter reindeer grazing forest important for the Muotkatunturi co-operative in Angeli, northern Lapland.

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