Indigenous rights leader, Nobel nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier to speak at climate change summit
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, global advocate for indigenous rights and health, and leader focused on the impact of climate change on human rights, will present a keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at CU 小蓝视频 in December.
In 2005, Watt-Cloutier launched the world's first international legal action on climate change: a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging that fossil fuel emissions from the United States鈥攁 large contributor to global warming 鈥攙iolated Inuit cultural and environmental human rights.
S. James Anaya, a distinguished professor at the University of Colorado Law School and chair of the Right Here, Right Now summit steering committee, described Watt-Cloutier as a pioneer in