Future of Water movement session: A summary
This summary is an effort to capture the discussion of the session. However, not everything that was said might be reflected in the document. Many of the things said were proposals and are not...
View ArticleMarseilles declaration for palestinian water rights
We commit to take action in solidarity with Palestinian human rights, including the human right to water. Occupied Palestine – For years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee and other UN bodies...
View ArticleReclaim the UN from corporate capture!
Sign the civil society statement and join the campaign to stop UN corporate capture! In June this year, governments gather in Brazil for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development to agree on...
View ArticleThe Rio+20 we don’t want
A group of civil society organisations has written a letter to the UN and Rio+20 delegates outlining their opposition to the outline agreement. Here is what it says: The Future We Want is not to be...
View ArticleRio+20 or Silent Spring-50 ?
Governments mark 50 years of failure… and a couple of nano-steps forward. It’s difficult to describe Rio+20 as anything other than a tragedy. Despite years of preparation and months of negotiations,...
View ArticleGreen Economy, green business?
AttacTV´s first report about Rio+20 and People´s Summit at Rio de Janeiro.
View ArticleThe fight for water justice
Water justice at the Alternative World Water Forum with Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians/Blue Planet Project, Right Livelihood Award Laureate “Alternative Nobel Prize”), Wenonah Hauter (Executive...
View ArticleSome reflections for the struggle to keep life in the global water crisis
Once again the Blue October Campaign took place in Bolivia, a popular initiative to defend water with more than hundred social organizations, institutions, NGOs, and activists that promote public...
View ArticleWater justice instead of business cooperation
The United Nations has just named 2013 the year of water cooperation. Those of us who have been fighting privatization packaged as “partnerships” and deregulation promoted as “corporate sustainability”...
View ArticleDeclaration of the Ekopotamya Network
We, civil society organizations and social movements from Mesopotamia have come together because our rivers and lakes remain to be in significant danger of being dried up completely to the point of...
View ArticleOrganizations denounce Nestlé’s new human rights impact assessment as a...
BRUSSELS AND OTTAWA–Nestlé’s new human rights assessment, launched at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights last week, is full of holes say labour and civil society organizations, including the...
View ArticleHow Can Africa’s Water and Sanitation Shortfall be Solved?
At current rates, it will take sub-Saharan Africa 15 years to reach its water goals and 150 years to reach its sanitation targets. A group of experts explain what needs to change. On March 22, groups...
View ArticleThe human rights to water and sanitation in courts worldwide
The consequences of a lack of safe water and sanitation for human health and dignity are severe. Millions of lives and livelihoods are disturbed by a lack of access to water and sanitation, and people...
View ArticleUN General Assembly affirms that water and sanitation are distinct rights
Joint Statement from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and WASH United on UN General Assembly Resolution 70/169 on the Human Rights to Water and to Sanitation United Nations General Assembly...
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How Privatisation Undermines the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
Access to safe water and sanitation has long been internationally recognised as a basic human right, essential for life. But when water becomes a marketable commodity rather than a public good, it is...
View ArticleSwiss Development Aid, Nestlé and Water Privatization
Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of a Foundation in Geneva, under the name ‘Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator’ (GSDA). The purpose of this new foundation is...
View ArticleWith climate change impacts accelerating, we need to re-think the human right...
This year’s theme for World Water Day is Water and Climate Change. The recent Australian drought and flooding in the UK and East Africa show how climate change is leading to extreme events that create...
View ArticleCOVID-19 puts the human right to water front and centre
The current coronavirus pandemic is greatly exacerbated by the global water crisis and adds urgency to the fight for the human right to water. Even before COVID-19 struck, the United Nations called...
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