À propos de cette chaîne On December 7, 2005, Silla Watt-
Cloutier and sixty-two Inuit hunters and elders from communities
across Canada and Alaska filed a petition with the Inter-
American Commission on Human Rights. Based on the findings of
the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment*, the petition alleges that
the unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases from the United
States violate Inuit cultural and environmental human rights as
guaranteed by the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and
Duties of Man. Although the IACHR decided against hearing her
petition, the Commission invited Ms. Watt-Cloutier to testify
with her international legal team (including lawyers from
Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law)
at their first hearing on climate change and human rights on
March 1, 2007. This channel features the unedited interviews
from the petition. *The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
projects that Inuit hunting culture may not survive the loss of
sea ice and other changes projected over t