{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A Radical Act of Hope with Siila Watt-Cloutier","title":" S01 E3: Making Climate Change A Human Rights Issue","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3114,"description":"In Episode 3 of A Radical Act of Hope, Inuk climate advocate Silla Watt-Cloutier’s influence builds as she continues to make an impact on the world stage. This time, she’s helping transform the way the world thinks about the devastating effects of climate change, with help from the testimonies of the hunters, Elders, and women of the Arctic. \n\nWe’ll dive into Siila’s work on the landmark petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which changed the discourse around climate change by framing it as a violation of the human rights of Inuit. \n\nAnd Janna Wale pivots from narrator to subject as we hear more about her story, the importance of healing our relationship to the land, and the experiences that shaped her path toward climate work.\n\nAbout the Hosts\n\nSiila Watt-Cloutier\n\nSiila Watt-Cloutier is a lifelong advocate for the rights of Inuit and a leading voice in climate action. Her groundbreaking work has connected human rights and climate change in the public and political consciousness, transforming international policy and creating a new area of scholarship and advocacy.\n\nFrom 1995 to 2002, Watt-Cloutier was the Canadian President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). From 2002 to 2006, she was the International Chair of the ICC, representing the 155,000 Inuit in Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Russia. She was an influential force behind the adoption of the Stockholm Convention to ban persistent organic pollutants, which accumulate in Arctic food chains.\n\nShe is the author of the memoir, The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet, which was nominated for multiple writing awards. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Aboriginal Achievement Award, the UN Champion of the Earth Award, the Norwegian Sophie Prize, the Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue and the Right Livelihood Award, which is widely considered the “Nobel Alternative.”\n\nJanna Wale \n\nJanna Wale is the Indigenous...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/s6TZyV2_EGFjgceUIrsBT4mNoQF5lybO4HdTz_fRC6w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNGFi/MzRmYTBmYWZmYmJl/MmJkZjNjNDFhNzJm/N2I1YS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}