Osofsky, Hari M. --- "Complexities of addressing the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples through international law petitions: a case study of the Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights" [2013] ELECD 249; in Abate, S. Randall; Kronk, Ann Elizabeth (eds), "Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 313

Book Title: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

Editor(s): Abate, S. Randall; Kronk, Ann Elizabeth

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781001790

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Complexities of addressing the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples through international law petitions: a case study of the Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Author(s): Osofsky, Hari M.

Number of pages: 24

Abstract/Description:

The rapid pace of climate change in the Arctic poses serious challenges for the Inuit peoples living there. A petition filed with the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights in December 2005 – during then-President George W. Bush’s administration – on behalf of Inuit in the United States and Canada claimed that US climate change policy violated their rights. Upon filing the petition, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, then-Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, made a statement at the 2005 Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.