Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Says Global Warming is a Human Rights Issue

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit born inside the Canadian Arctic, says that global warming constitutes a violation of human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas throughout the world.

Watt-Cloutier and Martin Wagner, an attorney with the environmental law firm Earthjustice, argued this case Thursday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States in Washington.

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