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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips
This is what I'm curious about. I'm wondering what the rationale for this is. I would think that a peace prize would be reserved for those who have brokered peace through statesmanship or addressed crises of human rights.
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Interesting that you brought up human rights.
I was rooting for his co-nominee Canadian Sheila Watt-Cloutier. She is an inuit from northern Canada that has been raising awareness of this issue for years. She is most well known for her efforts to take legal action tying climate change to a human rights issue.
Inuit fight climate change with human-rights claim against U.S. | By Emily Gertz | Grist | Main Dish | 26 Jul 2005
It seems that though the committee has begun to take this stand as well, treating the health of the climate as a human rights issue.
Andrew