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Defending the human right to water and sanitation at the United Nations
July 28, 2015 – 9:18am By Meera Karunananthan and Aine O’Connor On this day five years ago, the United Nations formally recognized the human right to water and sanitation by passing resolution 64/292. Social movements who campaigned for it saw the hu…
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The California drought is just the beginning of our national water emergency
July 15, 2015 – 2:25pm Published in The Nation, July 15, 2015 ?For years, Americans dismissed dire water shortages as a problem of the Global South. Now the crisis is coming home. The United Nations reports that we have 15 years to avert a full-bl…
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Statement on private sector participation in the implementation of Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
In advance of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development to take place in Addis Ababa from July 13-16, the Blue Planet Project, Public Services International, Education International, Sisters of Mercy – Mercy International Association, Franciscans International and the Transnational Institute have spearheaded a global petition calling for safeguards against the corporate takeover of…
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California’s drought: the canary in the coalmine?
June 30, 2015 – 10:44am Credit: http://climatecommons.earthjournalism.net/map/. All rights reserved. “There is no place on earth that can be safe, secure or healthy in a world that is running out of water.” On April 1, 2015, California Govern…
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Statement on private sector participation in the implementation of Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
In advance of the United Nations Summit on Financing for Development to take place in Addis Ababa from July 13-17, the Blue Planet Project, Public Services International, Education International, Sisters of Mercy – Mercy International Association, Franciscans International and the Transnational Institute have spearheaded a global petition calling for safeguards against the corporate takeover of…
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Pope Francis underscores the human right to water, objects to water privatization in encyclical
June 19, 2015Joint Media Release Pope Francis underscored the importance of the human right to water and objected to privatization of water services in his highly anticipated Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si’” On Care for our Common Home released y…
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Agua Vida (water life) documentary
June 10, 2015 – 9:12am As the city of Sao Paulo rapidly runs out of fresh water, an upcoming Brazilian documentary examines the underlying causes of the urgent water crisis in a country that is home to 12 per cent of the world’s freshwater supply. Th…
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Remembering water justice activist Kimy Pernia Domico
June 2, 2015 – 6:20pm Kimy Pernia Domico was an Indigenous Embera Katio water justice activist in Colombia who disappeared fourteen years ago this week. In June 2001, the Council of Canadians issued a media release that, “expressed deep concern for the…
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Harper government and UN discuss private sector funding for the SDGs
May 27, 2015 – 8:57am Karunananthan speaks at the UN last week on unregulated private sector participation in the Post-2015 Development Agenda The United Nations is calling on the Harper government to increase its foreign aid spending to help finan…
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Blue Planet Project says privatising public services is no way to fund sustainable development
May 22, 2015 – 8:40am Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan spoke at a United Nations side event yesterday during the fifth session of the Post-2015 negotiations process (May 18-22). She has been working with allies around the world to en…