by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Aug 30, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
August 30, 2021 – Anchorage, Alaska – Inuit Delegates from circumpolar countries – Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia) – are meeting today, for the first in a series of workshops, to begin developing Inuit Circumpolar protocols for the Equitable and...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Aug 27, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
August 27, 2021 – Anchorage, Alaska – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), and the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) in Canada, have made a joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. The submission...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jul 6, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
July 6, 2021 – Ottawa, Canada – The appointment of former Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Chair Mary Simon as Canada’s 30th Governor General is a major step forward in relations between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples domestically, and globally. Ms. Simon is...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 23, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
June 23, 2021 – Ottawa, Canada – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) attended the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC 76) virtual meetings June 10-17, 2021. The IMO MEPC discussed key steps to...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 16, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
June 16, 2021 – Anchorage, Alaska – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) views the passage of Bill C-15 in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as an historic step...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 16, 2021 | 2021, News, Press Releases
June 16, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – The announcement of Canada’s new Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages is a milestone in the long struggle to preserve our Inuit language, says the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). It is also very much in the spirit...