by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 29, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
November 29, 2008, Ilulissat, Greenland – Aqqaluk Lynge, President of the Greenland chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) as well as ICC Vice Chair, told foreign ministers gathered here yesterday from Norway, Denmark, USA, and Canada that much of the Arctic...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Nov 10, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
10 November 2008 – Ottawa, Ontario – Inuit leaders from Greenland, Alaska, and Canada met in Kuujjuaq last week and agreed to develop an ‘Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic’. In advance of the Declaration the leaders also approved the attached...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jul 14, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
Monday July 14, 2008 – Ottawa, Ontario – Inuit are calling on the government of Canada to step up its actions against the European Union to avoid an EU-wide ban on the import of Canadian Seal products. “We are clearly not on the same page with Europeans on...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 2, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
2 June 2008, Inuvik – Canadian Inuit say that the foreign ministers of five Arctic nations that met in Ilulissat, Greenland last week to discuss Arctic sovereignty forgot about the fiduciary obligations toward Inuit in the Ilulissat Declaration they signed. “Our...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 15, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
In the wake of the May 14 listing of Polar Bear as a “threatened species” under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), Ms. Patricia Cochran, International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, called upon the Government of the United States to join with Canada,...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 1, 2008 | 2008, Press Releases
Thursday May 1, 2008 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Inuit are reiterating their position on the listing of the Polar Bear in the USA as a threatened species and disagree with recent comments made by a US Environmental Group for Canada to alter its listing of...