BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251020T233104EDT-6482OFgEC1@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251021T033104Z DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism welcomes Profes sor Martin Scheinin (European University Institute\, Florence\, Italy) for a talk on the Sámi People’s quest for self-determination.\n\nHis talk wil l be moderated by Professor Payam Akhavan\, and Professor Mark Walters wil l act as discussant.\n\nAbstract\n\nInternational law promises to all peop les the right of self-determination. A breakthrough that allowed the adopt ion of the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was mad e with a drafting compromise that affirms this right also for indigenous p eoples but at the same time may be understood as suggesting that their rig ht of self-determination may be different from the general international l aw right of self determination. The Sámi are the Indigenous people of Norw ay\, Sweden\, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. The l ecture will address the Sámi People’s quest for self-determination and rel ate it to the UN Declaration and to the practice of the Human Rights Commi ttee acting under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights .\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMartin Scheinin is Professor of International La w and Human Rights at the European University Institute in Florence\, Ital y. In 1997-2004 he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. In 2003- 2005 he was a member of an expert group that prepared a draft of a Nordic Sámi Convention\, a treaty that still is subject to negotiations. Over thr ee decades he has been advising the Sámi in issues of international and hu man rights law.\n DTSTART:20190109T180000Z DTEND:20190109T193000Z LOCATION:NCDH 316\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:Indigenous Peoples as Peoples: The Quest for Self-Determination by the Nordic Sámi People URL:/law/channels/event/indigenous-peoples-peoples-que st-self-determination-nordic-sami-people-292494 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR