one woman's fight to protect the Arctic and save the planet from climate change
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- Creator
- McKibben, Bill > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- CAN 9 WAT 2018
- Thesaurus
- mensenrechten, milieu, sociale verhoudingen, besturen, Inuit, Noordpoolgebieden, Canada, 20e eeuw, 1950-1959, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, autobiografie
- Description
- First published in 2015 by Penguin Canada Books. Memoir of Sheila Watt-Cloutier (1953) of growing up in the Arctic in northern Quebec, a region later known as Nunavik, Canada. She is an indiginous environmental, cultural and human rights advocate. From 1995 to 2002 she served as the elected Canadian president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), in 2002 she was elected international chair of the ICC. In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy work emphasizing the impact global climate change has on human rights, especially in the Arctic.