Láilá Susanne Vars
| Láilá Susanne Vars | |
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| Born |
19 August 1976 Láhpoluoppal, Kautokeino municipality, Finnmark county, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
| Political party | Árja |
Láilá Susanne Vars (born 19 August 1976) is a Norwegian-Sami lawyer and former politician. She is head of department at the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), as well as an expert member of the United Nations' Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
She led the Sami Árja party from 2008 to 2010, and was vice president of the Sami Parliament of Norway from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, she became the director of the Gáldu Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was based in Kautokeino, Norway. When Gáldu was integrated into the NHRI in 2017, Vars was chosen as head of department at the NHRI.
Vars studied law at the University of Tromsø, earning her cand.jur. degree in 2001 and her doctorate in international law in 2010, with a dissertation entitled "The Sámi People's Right to Self-determination".
She worked as a legal adviser for the Sami Parliament from 2001 to 2004, and she played a central role in the adoption of the Finnmark Act, which gave about 95% of the land of Finnmark county to its inhabitants. She also participated in the negotiations on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the Sami Parliament. She has led the Sami Jurists Association and has sat on several committees at the University of Tromsø. She has also published several articles on Sami and indigenous rights.
During the Sami parliamentary election of 2009, she was the first candidate on the Árja party's list for the second (Ávjovárri) electoral district. She was elected to the Sami Parliament, beating two former Sami Parliament presidents in her district, and served as vice president for the 2009–2013 term. On 25 February 2010, the Sami Parliament decided that Executive Council members would not participate in plenary, so Alf Isaksen took over her plenary seat as substitute member.
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