E/C.12/76/D/251/2022
E/C.12/76/D/289/2022
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: General
9 December 2024
Original: English
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Views adopted by the Committee under the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, concerning communications
No. 251/2022 and No. 289/2022*, **, ***, ****
Communications submitted by:
J.T., J.P.V., P-M.V., P-A.L., P-T.J., O.A.V.,
M-L.V., N-M.V., L-T.V., J-O.J., N-A.L.,
Á-M.L., M.L., M.L., J-T.L., V.T. and N-M.V.
(represented by counsel, Martin Scheinin)
Alleged victims:
The authors and S.V., E.S.V. and E.A.V.
State party:
Finland
Dates of communications:
31 December 2021 (communication
No. 251/2022) and 15 May 2022
(communication No. 289/2022) (initial
submissions)
Date of adoption of Views:
27 September 2024
Subject matter:
Granting of a mineral exploration permit
(communication No. 251/2022) and a reservation
(communication No. 289/2022) in respect of
areas on the Sami people’s traditional territory
without an impact assessment or free, prior and
informed consent
Procedural issues:
Victim status; exhaustion of domestic remedies;
substantiation of claims
Substantive issues:
Right to self-determination; non-discrimination
and equality; right to an adequate standard of
living; right to take part in the cultural life of a
community; Indigenous Peoples; right to land
Articles of the Covenant:
1, 2 (2), 6, 7 (a) (ii), 11, 12 and 15 (1) (a)
* Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-sixth session (9–27 September 2024).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Aslan
Abashidze, Mohamed Ezzeldin Abdel-Moneim, Nadir Adilov, Mohammed Amarti, Asraf Ally
Caunhye, Laura-Maria Crăciunean-Tatu, Peters Sunday Omologbe Emuze, Santiago Manuel Fiorio
Vaesken, Ludovic Hennebel, Joo-Young Lee, Karla Vanessa Lemus de Vásquez, Mikel Mancisidor de
la Fuente, Seree Nonthasoot, Lydia Carmelita Ravenberg, Julieta Rossi, Preeti Saran, Shen Yongxiang
and Michael Windfuhr.
*** An individual opinion by Committee member Ludovic Hennebel (concurring) is annexed to the present
Views.
**** The annex is being circulated in the language of submission only.
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