by Cassandra Elliott | Nov 10, 2025 | News, Position Papers
APPROVED OCTOBER 2025 The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is an Indigenous Peoples’ organization founded in 1977 to promote and celebrate the unity of 185,000 Inuit from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka in the Russian far east. As the international voice of...
by Cassandra Elliott | Nov 3, 2025 | 2025, News, Press Releases
Women are pillars of strength in their communities; safeguarding our languages, traditions and transmitting the values that sustain Inuit societies and ways of life. (Inuit Women’s Summit Declaration, October 2025) Sisimiut, October 2025 – Inuit Circumpolar...
by Cassandra Elliott | Oct 20, 2025 | 2025, News, Press Releases
October 20, 2025 — Inuit Circumpolar Council will convene its first Inuit Women’s Summit in Sisimiut from October 27 – 29, 2025. The Summit will bring together over 50 Inuit practitioners, change-makers, rights-holders and leaders from Kalaallit Nunaat...
by Cassandra Elliott | Oct 1, 2025 | 2025, News, Press Releases
𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) are pleased to announce that NTI has graciously accepted to host ICC’s 15th General Assembly next summer from July 22-25, 2026, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.“We are excited to...
by Cassandra Elliott | Sep 17, 2025 | 2025, News, Press Releases
17 September 2025 —Cambridge Bay—The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada is pleased to announce that Herb Nakimayak has been appointed interim President of ICC Canada until the next election, scheduled for the summer of 2026. Mr. Nakimayak was previously...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Aug 15, 2025 | 2025, News, Press Releases
August 15, 2025, Geneva, Switzerland The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC) 5.2 in Geneva, Switzerland taking place from August 5 to 15, 2025, was supposed to be the last session of the negotiations to reach a treaty on plastic pollution. After very...