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Inuit All Along
Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected |
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18 Dec 2006 |
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| Inuit All Along Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected Is climate change a human-rights issue? The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decided to dodge the question. Arctic Inuit submitted a petition to the commission a year ago, accusing the U.S. government of violating Native peoples' rights to their traditional ways of life by declining to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The IAC ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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