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Climate Change Speaker: Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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Politique: Essayé de convaincre les gouvernements d'être plus responsable avec les chimiques qui impact le changement climats qui avait des effets négatifs sur les traditions des première nation au nord.

Social: Développer des programs et ressources pour supporter le santé et éducation dans des communautés indigènes, dans le nord et communautés du sud.

Des deux côtés, elle est devenue une autorité internationalement reconnue sur le climat et les peuples autochtones du monde

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Chef de file mondialement reconnue et championne des droits et du bien-être des peuples autochtones de l'Arctique, Mme Watt-Cloutier a été une pionnière dans l'établissement d'un lien entre le changement climatique et la santé et le bien-être des Inuits.

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La contribution civique de Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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La contribution civique de Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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activist; aide les première nations

Administrateur

établir des terrains de jeux et des garderies à Kuujjuaq.

Conseillère pour des étudiants inuits du réseau collégial québécois dans Dorval

Traductrice dans sa clinique communautaire

Conseiller d'un groupe de travail sur l'éducation.

Commandé par le conseil régional de la santé pour l'étude de l'abus d'alcool et de substances

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Lorsqu'elle travaillait à la commission scolaire de Kativik, elle a amélioré le bien-être de la communauté  (terrains de jeux et des garderies ). Lorsqu'elle a travaillé comme chef de département des services aux étudiants, elle a améliorer la vie des étudiants grâce à un budget accru, les aider à relever les défis de l'alcool et de abuse de produits. Elle a participé en tant que conseillère à un rapport qui identifie les trous du système éducatif pour les populations autochtones et encourage un système différent qui voulait préserver les traditions culturelles, l'autonomie gouvernementale et l'investissement dans les structures et les ressources communautaires.

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élue pour secrétaire générale pour la Société Makivik

sensibiliser aux enjeux sociaux et éducatifs auxquels font face les jeunes du Nunavik.

1995: élue comme président canadien pour les Inuits Conseil circumpolaire (ICC)

2000:participé à un comité scientifique international, des informations scientifiques et traditionnelles sur le réchauffement des tendances dans l'Arctique

2001: traité multinational, utilisation restreinte des POP

élu pour la chaire internationale en 2002

parle a propo des répercussions produits chimiques de synthèse sur les inuits et le climat

2005: pétition avec la commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme sur le changement climatique. Premier acte juridique au monde sur le changement climatique.

2007: prix nobel de la paix pour son activisme environnemental et politique, les impacts du changement climatique sur les inuits

l'invite à une audience qui lui permet d'être efficace dans le domaine du réchauffement climatique et des peuples autochtones

2015: publie un livre “the right to be cold” qui a été nominé pour plusieurs prix littéraires

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Élevée traditionnellement "dans la neige et la glace" jusqu'à 10 ans, elle a fait l'expérience d'institutions académiques non indignes, ce qui la conduit à observer le lien qui existe entre la culture traditionnelle et l'impact de la perte de modes de vie indépendants causée par le changement climatique.

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier | National Aboriginal History Month

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Prix ​​Mahbub ul Haq 2007 pour l'excellence en développement humain

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Prix ​​Mahbub ul Haq 2007 pour l'excellence en développement humain

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"the Right to be Cold" par Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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"the Right to be Cold" par Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier Made Climate Change a Human Rights Issue
The Transformational Canadians program celebrates 25 living citizens who have made a difference by immeasurably improving the lives of others. Readers were invited to nominate Canadians who fit this description. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit activist, was selected as one of 25 Transformational Canadians in 2010.
In the landmark 2005 legal petition she served against the United States, Sheila Watt-Cloutier linked the devastating effects of climate change on the Arctic to the human rights of her fellow Inuit. At the time, such a view wasn't exactly accepted wisdom. In fact, it sounded downright odd.

"Today, it's mainstream language - everybody talks about [climate change]as a human-rights issue," says Ms. Watt-Cloutier from Maine, where she is spending a year as a teaching scholar at Bowdoin College's Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center. "I think we've been successful in changing the discourse on this issue to making that connection."

For the past 15 years, Ms. Watt-Cloutier has also striven to connect the health of the Arctic with global well-being. Her petition to the Inter-American Council on Human Rights - which led to a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nomination alongside Al Gore - is one of several bold stands she has taken in defence of her ancestral home. But she doesn't believe in confrontation.

"I have always engaged in the politics of influence rather than the politics of protest," says Ms. Watt-Cloutier, who holds a clutch of honorary degrees and received the Order of Canada in 2006. "The style of leadership that I have is one of bringing people together and understanding that we're all one here. The planet and its people are one."

She notes that attention is now shifting to the Arctic - largely because of the oil and mineral wealth that lies beneath its fast-melting ice. To Ms. Watt-Cloutier's dismay, the world knows the North's resources better than its original inhabitants, whose traditional way of life is at stake.

"That's the sadness, even though a lot of people may disagree with me - perhaps even in our own regions - and say, 'Development is the way to go,' " says the 56-year-old grandmother, stressing that she is not anti-business. "For me, it's always about balance. At what cost is it that we're going to go in that direction?"

Ms. Watt-Cloutier, who lives in Iqaluit, was born into a hunting and fishing family in Kuujjuaq, a coastal Inuit community in Northern Quebec's Nunavik region. For the first 10 years of her life, she travelled only by dogsled and she spoke no English until she started school. "It shaped me completely - that's the foundation upon which I do my global work," she says of her early childhood.

After several years as an Inuktitut interpreter at the Kuujjuaq hospital, Ms. Watt-Cloutier shifted to educational and community advocacy. Her somewhat unlikely metamorphosis into a political leader began in 1995, when she was elected corporate secretary of Makivik Corp., which oversees Inuit land claims including the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. Over the next decade, Ms. Watt-Cloutier found herself thrust into a larger public role as head of the Canadian and then the international branch of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.

At the ICC, she led Northern indigenous people from four countries in a campaign against persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which have long poisoned the Arctic food chain. Aided by NGOs and other supporters, she was instrumental in negotiating a global treaty that seeks to ban these toxins.

As part of what she calls her mission to transform public opinion into public policy, Ms. Watt-Cloutier is writing a book called The Right to Be Cold. Because the Arctic is the early-warning system for climate change, she argues, its fate is everyone's.

"That's always been my message, to signal that everything is connected," Ms. Watt-Cloutier says. "And it's interesting that it is our shared troubled atmosphere that is connecting us as a shared humanity."

From The Globe and Mail.

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier Made Climate Change a Human Rights Issue

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The Transformational Canadians program celebrates 25 living citizens who have made a difference by immeasurably improving the lives of others. Readers were invited to nominate Canadians who fit this description. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit activist, was selected as one of 25 Transformational Canadians in 2010.