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The Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples is a meeting-place for researchers, development workers and Sámi organisations engaged in cooperation with indigenous peoples in the South. On these web-pages you may keep yourself updated on arrangements and find informatuion about development support and Indigenous peoples. The Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples is supported by Norad, the secretariat is at the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø. |
In addition to annual conferences and seminars, the the secretariat assist in disseminating research resulta and information. We invite you to forward relevant information that we may link to or distribute on our email-list. Subscribe to our email-list |
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, warned Friday that a proposal to repeal key laws and policies related to Sami people in Norway could “constitute an enormous setback for the recognition and protection of human rights in the country.” The Sami are an indigenous people living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
There are more than 370 million indigenous peoples in some 90 countries in the world today, accounting for 15 percent of the world’s poor and one-third of the 900 million people living in extreme poverty. Indigenous people tend to experience low levels of education, increased health problems, higher crime rates and human rights abuses. |
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The Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples
University of Tromsø
N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
