Global Warming and Human Rights Gets Hearing on the World Stage
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Washington, DC
On
March 5, 2007, CIEL Senior Attorney Donald Goldberg, Inuit leader and
Nobel Prize nominee, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and Earthjustice Managing Attorney
Martin Wagner provided testimony before the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights (IACHR). The subject of their testimony was the impact
of global warming on the Inuit and other vulnerable communities in the
Americas and the implication of these impacts for human rights. Mr. Goldberg
also provided some recommendations as to how the Commission might proceed.
The IACHR is one of two bodies within the Organization of American States
authorized to oversee the operation of the OAS Inter-American Human Rights
System. On December 7, 2005, CIEL
filed a petition with the Commission on behalf of Ms. Watt-Cloutier
and 62 other Inuit petitioners. The petition was rejected without prejudice
on November 16, 2006. In February 2007 the Commission invited Ms. Watt-Cloutier,
Mr. Goldberg, and Mr. Wagner to provide testimony on the link between
global warming and human rights.
- Watch the video (requires Windows Media Player)
- Listen to Sheila Watt-Cloutier's radio interview with "The World"
- Read Sheila Watt-Cloutier's testimony (PDF)
- Read Martin Wagner's testimony (PDF)
- Read Donald Goldberg's (CIEL) testimony (PDF)
- View additonal background information on global
warming & human rights (PDF)
Photos courtesy of Juan Manuel Herrera, OAS
For more information, please contact Craig Hart or Marcos Orellana.
This page last modified on 11 March 2008.