On December 7, 2005, Silla Watt-Cloutier and sixty-two Inuit hunters and elders from communities across Canada and Alaska filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Based on the findings of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment*, the petition alleges that the unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases from the United States violate Inuit cultural and environmental human rights as guaranteed by the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. 

Although the IACHR decided against hearing her petition, the Commission invited Ms. Watt-Cloutier to testify with her international legal team (including lawyers from Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law) at their first hearing on climate change and human rights on March 1, 2007.

This channel features the unedited interviews from the petition.

*The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment projects that Inuit hunting culture may not survive the loss of sea ice and other changes projected over the coming decades.

LIVE on IsumaTV May 29th 7:45pm - 10 pm EST

THE 9th ANNUAL LAFONTAINE-BALDWIN SYMPOSIUM: Featuring SIILA WATT-CLOUTIER

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- Opening Ceremony

- Word of Welcome from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada

- Presentation of the winners of a photo competition by Dr Zacharias Kunuk O.C.

- Presentation of the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium by John Ralston Saul

- Introduction of Siila Watt-Cloutier by the Honourable Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, Commissioner of Nunavut

- SIILA WATT-CLOUTIER, Inuit climate activist and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking LIVE from Iqaluit on Inuit Knowledge, Human Rights and Climate Change.

- Q&A and Inuit entertainment.

THE 9th ANNUAL LAFONTAINE-BALDWIN SYMPOSIUM

is a presentation of

the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and The Dominion Institut

This webcast live on IsumaTV from Iqaluit, Nunavut is made possible with the support of

SSI Micro