Siila

Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers her keynote at Health Canada's - First Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Pan-Arctic Results Workshop, held in Ottawa February 7-10, 2011.

This speech navigates the global and local level decision-making and impacts of climate change, weaving together human rights, ecological and governance issues, all within Siila's unique indigenous women's perspective.

Siila Watt-Cloutier, Officer of the Order of Canada and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee is an International Inuit leader and activist.  In Iqaluit in 2009, she addresses the 9th Annual Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium on Canada's North, Inuit wisdom, and Inuit resiliency in the face of climate change and a rapidly changing cultural landscape.  In English with a preface in Inuktitut. <… Uqalimakkanirit