by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jun 18, 2009 | 2009, Press Releases
Nuuk, Greenland, 18 June 2009 – The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Stotts as its new Chair. Mr. Stotts, an Alaskan Iñupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, replaces Patricia Cochran who resigned as ICC Chair last week. He was...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Apr 28, 2009 | 2009, Press Releases
Tromsø, Norway – 28 April 2009 – Inuit leaders from Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Russia today launched a Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty. In developing this declaration, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) worked with Inuit across the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Apr 2, 2009 | 2009, Press Releases
Inuvik – 2 April 2009 The president of the Canadian office of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC Canada), Duane Smith, praised the Australian government for endorsing tonight (3 April Canberra time) the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Mar 27, 2009 | 2009, Press Releases
Ottawa, Ontario – March 27, 2009 – Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) and the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC Canada) today revealed that the Council of the European Union (EU) has been told by its own legal advisors that a proposed EU-wide ban on seal product...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Jan 19, 2009 | 2009, Press Releases
Monday January 19, 2009 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Inuit leaders were in Winnipeg Manitoba on Friday January 16, 2009, to attend the National Polar Bear Roundtable hosted by the Federal Minister of Environment, Jim Prentice. The Roundtable also included...
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...