A/HRC/33/42/Add.3 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on the human rights situation of the Sami people in the Sápmi region of Norway, Sweden and Finland* Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 II. The Sami people ............................................................................................................................... 3 III. Natural resource investments on Sami lands .................................................................................... 4 IV. Cross-border Sami initiatives ........................................................................................................... 5 A. Nordic Sami convention .......................................................................................................... 5 B. Sámi Giellagáldu ..................................................................................................................... 6 Country analysis ............................................................................................................................... 7 A. Norway .................................................................................................................................... 7 B. Sweden..................................................................................................................................... 10 C. Finland ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Conclusions and recommendations .................................................................................................. 19 A. Norway .................................................................................................................................... 20 B. Sweden..................................................................................................................................... 20 C. Finland ..................................................................................................................................... 21 V. VI. * Circulated in the language of submission only. 2