In February 2013 , Finland had not signed the international Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples nor the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989 ( ILO-convention 169 ) . In March 2014 , Finland had not ratified the ILO-convention 169 . Sauli Niinistö , the President of Finland , called the treaty irrelevant . However , the Sami people of Finland 's north and Lapland have had no special rights , for example , in land rights for reindeer herding . In October 2011 , the UN Human Rights Committee called for the cessation of the killing of reindeer in Nellim , Inari . Reindeer owners and the Metsähallitus ( Department of Forestry ) were in dispute over this matter
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention , 1989
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
Human rights in Finland