by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Feb 18, 2020 | 2020, News, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Joint Statement – ICC Canada / Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) (February 18, 2020) Inuit voices were among those sounding an early warning regarding climate change many years ago, before the world started to heed the warnings of scientists...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jan 21, 2020 | 2020, News
January 20, 2020 – Anadyr – Anchorage – Ottawa – Nuuk – Today the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) confirms the following Inuit youth as the recipients of the inaugural Hans-Pavia Rosing Leadership Award: Janessa Elanik – Canada Tatyana Oleinikova – Chukotka Samantha...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019, News, Press Releases
December 19, 2019 – New York – The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a significant resolution that ”Proclaims the period 2022–2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, to draw attention to the critical loss of indigenous languages and the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Dec 13, 2019 | 2019, News, Press Releases
December 13, 2019 – Madrid, Spain – Inuit leaders emerge from the UNFCCC COP25 Climate Change conference underlining that greater actions and measures are needed by governments, corporations, and civil society to meaningfully address climate change. ICC Chair Dalee...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 29, 2019 | 2019, News, Press Releases
November 29, 2019 – Madrid, Spain – Inuit leaders and youth are heading to Spain to attend the UN COP25 Climate Change conference. The Chair of Inuit Circumpolar Council Dalee Sambo Dorough, ICC Canada Vice-President (International) Lisa Koperqualuk, and President of...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 28, 2019 | 2019, News, Press Releases
November 28, 2019 – Ilulissat, Greenland – The Executive Council of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) held a productive meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland November 23-25. They also met with the Municipal Council of Avannaata Kommunia and Mayor Palle Jerimiassen to hear...