First National Inuit Youth Summit

First National Inuit Youth Summit in Kuujuaq, Nunavik, opens. The summit was attended by one youth representative from each of the 53 Inuit communities in Canada.

A total of 88 youth from as far away as Copenhagen, Nuuk, Greenland, and Peterborough, Ontario, were part of the discussions.

Issues discussed were:

• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Leadership and community development
• Education reform
• Health
• Justice and the Inuit Youth
• National Inuit Youth Council structure
• Recent Youth Conference resolutions

The summit was held November 18 – 20^th, 1994