Featured Event
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The Blue Planet Project’s World Water Day 2025 Reflection
World Water Day 2025 Reflection This year, we at the Blue Planet Project would like to use the World Water Day commemoration to reflect on the centrality of water to life. Last year, we offered a series of critiques of the United Nations (UN) and positioned ourselves outside of UN frameworks, conversations, and agendas; but…
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The BPP at the PWF 2024 Bali
Despite significant opposition from the government of Indonesia and the World Water Council, the organizers of the World Water Forum, the 1st People’s Water Forum came to a successful conclusion in Bali, Indonesia. The Corporate Capture of Water Governance at the World Water Forum The World Water Council and the government of Indonesia hosted the…
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Bridging Waters: Uniting Activists for Bottom-Up Solutions
(español mas abajo) Water Justice activists from Kenya and South Africa recently convened in Cape Town for the inaugural Bridging Waters event, a collaborative initiative organised by the Africa Water Justice Network in collaboration with the Blue Planet Project, the African Water Commons Collective and the Nairobi Water Justice Working Group. The gathering marked a…
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Indonesian Water Defenders Under Siege in Bali
Water Defenders, including Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, threatened and assaulted in Bali People’s Water Forum Press Release – Bali, Indonesia 21 May 2024 From 18 to 24 May 2024, Indonesia is hosting the 10th World Water Forum. This triennial event is convened by…
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Academics Denounce Attempts to Shut Down the People’s Water Forum 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.
A statement by academics has been issued denouncing efforts to suppress the People’s Water Forum (PWF) in Bali, Indonesia, including the cancellation of the venue for the event, which was to be held at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts. The Blue Planet Project unequivocally supports this call to respect academic freedom and human rights.…
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People’s Water Forum 2024 Bali – Registration and Call for Proposals Now Open!
The People’s Water Forum is pleased to invite registrations and session proposals for the People’s Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, 21-23 May, 2024. Click here to learn more, register or submit your proposal now!
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Our Future is Public Conference 29 Nov – 2 Dec, Santiago, Chile
The climate emergency, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic have reaffirmed the failures and limitations of the current neoliberal model to respond to crises and ensure a dignified life for all. Transforming the organisation of our economy is needed to confront the challenges the world is currently facing and to create societies that are fair, inclusive, socially-just,…
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No New Water on Earth, Only New Battlegrounds
Coumba Toure, @Kuumbati Storyteller; Movement Co-coordinator, Africans Rising; Board Chair, TrustAfrica Koni Benson, Organiser and historian at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Research Fellow, Blue Planet Project Meera Karunananthan, Feminist geographer, Carleton University – Canada; Co-director, Blue Planet Project The Alternative World Water Forum – Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) in French —…
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WEBCAST: Addressing Corporate Accountability and Unregulated Private Sector Participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for Follow-up and Review
Thursday, May 21, 2015 – 1:15 – 2:30 PM UN Conference Room 9 Webcast Live at webtv.un.org During the Post-2015 process, many organizations and a number of Member States have called for mechanisms enabling greater accountability for private sector involvement to ensure development that is truly sustainable, equitable, and just. This event will present a…
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Toronto Water Justice Gathering
The Blue Planet Project and allies are organizing a Water Justice Gathering that will take place this September 8-11 in Toronto. It will bring together policy and advocacy groups and activists from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa working on water justice issues.