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TransCanada threatens water and climate with pipeline expansion plans in Mexico
November 18, 2015 – 9:30am Mexican Alliance against Fracking rally In December 2013, the Mexican government passed an ‘energy reform law’ that means corporations can now explore and extract the vast oil and gas reserves in Mexico. Bloomberg describ…
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Barlow meets with Right2Water Ireland activists in Dublin
November 10, 2015 – 11:58am Barlow meets with Right2Water Ireland activists. Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow met with Right2Water Ireland activists in Dublin yesterday. On Facebook, Right2Water Ireland commented after the meeting, “Today w…
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New report: The Human Right to Water in the Diagnosis and Program for Human Rights in the Federal District in Mexico
November 2, 2015 – 3:56pm Mexico City has been witness of a very interesting process regarding human rights. Starting in 2007 a human rights diagnosis was drafted through a participative process. Later, a program with specific action points was written…
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The right to water in the struggle against neo-liberalism
October 30, 2015 – 10:59am Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan writes, “On August 2, United Nations member states signed off on the Post-2015 Development Agenda — a document two years in the making that will determine the shape of inte…
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Barlow speaks on water and climate change at Tufts University
October 16, 2015 – 9:59am Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow will be speaking at the ‘Restoring Water Cycles to Reverse Global Warming’ conference at Tufts University in Massachusetts this week. The conference website notes, “In this conference w…
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La Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking releases video
October 11, 2015 – 9:45am The Mexican Alliance against Fracking (La Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking) released a video titled ‘Say No to Fracking’ (Di NO al fracking) yesterday. Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena …
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Blue Planet Project opposes pre-paid water meters in South Africa
October 2, 2015 – 1:22pm The Blue Planet Project is active in the Beacon Valley sub-section of the Mitchell’s Plain township, which is situated about 32 kilometres outside the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Mitchell’s Plain is one of South Africa’…
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WIN! Sustainable Development Goals include the right to drinking water and sanitation
September 25, 2015 – 4:40pm The Guardian reports, “To cheers, applause and probably a tinge of relief, the 17 global goals that will provide the blueprint for the world’s development over the next 15 years were ratified by UN member states in New Yor…
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Water access, food security and power relations
August 17, 2015 – 3:37pm In a Guardian article, “Without ensuring universal access to water, there can be no food security”, Lyla Mehta highlights how the human right to water and sanitation has been won, but how existing power dynamics from the local …
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Human right to water and sanitation named and reaffirmed in post-2015 development agenda
August 3, 2015Joint Media Release On Sunday, August 2, United Nations member states unanimously agreed on the final text that will be adopted by heads of state at the UN summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda in late September. The post…