by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 17, 2014 | 2004, Press Releases
May 17, 2004, Iqaluit, Nunavut Inuit leaders, elders, community members and the former Chair of the International Negotiating Committee, Dr. John Buccini, celebrated the entry into force today of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), with a...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 21, 2013 | 2013, Press Releases
Ottawa (21 May 2013) – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has announced that it will hold its quadrennial General Assembly in Inuvik in July 2014. Inuit delegates, musicians, artists, and others will gather from Russia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada to celebrate the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jan 22, 2013 | 2013, Press Releases
22 January, 2013 – Geneva, Switzerland/Ottawa, Canada After a week with long negotiations that lasted throughout several nights, ICC participants were pleased to see the adoption of a global mercury treaty (the ‘Minamata Convention on Mercury’) at the 5th...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 7, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
OTTAWA – 7 November 2012 –Duane Smith, President of Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada today called on all Inuit and all Canadians to celebrate Inuit Day. In 2006 ICC General Assembly in Barrow, Alaska instructed ICC to “annually proclaim the November 7th birth date of...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Oct 16, 2012 | 2012, Press Releases
16 October 2012 – Nuuk, Greenland – Aqqaluk Lynge, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) today congratulated ICC Canada President and ICC Vice-Chair for Canada, Duane Smith, for having received the prestigious 2013 Indspire Award for Politics. Indspire awards...