Iqaluit activist Watt-Cloutier wins UN award

Environmental activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier of Iqaluit has been chosen as the recipient of a United Nations lifetime achievement award for human development.

Watt-Cloutier, the 53-year-old former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a current Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will receive the 2007 Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contributions to Human Development. She will receive the award in New York City on June 20.

In February, she was nominated along with former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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