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...
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...