Saturday, March 10, 2007

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Canaries in the Mine: Inuit Warn World of Human Cost of Climate Change

A Report by Sari Gelzer and Kelpie Wilson

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030807A.shtml

"Global warming is a human rights issue," says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit
activist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. In her lifetime, Watt-Cloutier has
witnessed the drastic effects of climate change that threaten her community's
livelihood and cultural identity. Watt-Cloutier testified in a hearing on March
1, 2007 to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights which was set up to
investigate the relationship between human rights and climate change in North
and South America. The hearing was a result of a petition that she and 62 other
Inuit in Alaska and Canada filed in 2005 in an attempt to hold the United States
accountable for its failure to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.


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