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Along the Winisk River
In Canada, a remote Indigenous community is fighting for its survival in the age of climate change. Extreme weather, changes in ice formation, and wildfires ...
In Canada, a remote indigenous community is struggling to survive in the age of climate change. Extreme weather, changes in ice formation, and forest fires have made hunting and foraging for traditional food increasingly dangerous and difficult. Along the Winisk River is a portrait of a community coming together to begin a caribou hunt in Canada's freezing subarctic winter. The film examines the effects of this struggle against the background of systemic discrimination and calls on the Canadian government to better protect the indigenous communities.
Read the report: https://www.hrw.org/node/376704
(Ottawa, October 21, 2020) - Climate change is taking a growing toll on First Nations in Canada, depleting food sources and adversely affecting health, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Government of Canada does not adequately support the efforts of the First Nations to adapt to the deepening crisis and is not doing anything to reduce the global greenhouse gas emissions that drive them.
The 122-page report "My Fear Loses Everything": The Climate Crisis and the Right of the First Nations to Food in Canada "documents how climate change is reducing traditional food sources for the First Nations and driving up the cost of imported alternatives. and contributing to a growing problem of food insecurity and its negative health effects. Canada is warming more than twice as fast as global and northern Canada about three times as fast as global. Despite its relatively small population, Canada is still one of the top ten greenhouse gas emitters. The per capita emissions are three to four times as high as the global average.
For more Human Rights Watch reports on human rights and the environment, visit:
https://www.hrw.org/topic/environment
For more Human Rights Watch reports on Canada, visit:
https://www.hrw.org/americas/canada
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