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The Blue Planet Project at the UN 2023 Water Conference
The BPP will be at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York from March 22-24, alongside our partners from around the world. The Water Justice Manifesto We have joined global Water Justice Movements to amplify the voices of water defenders and frontline communities to call on all those present at the conference to address…
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BPP Partner Mathare Social Justice Centre Struggles for Clean Water and Sanitation
Access to affordable and clean water cannot be taken for granted in Nairobi’s neighbourhood of Mathare. Gacheke Gachihi outlines the structural changes needed to guarantee affordable water for all. Since the early 2000s, the struggle to access clean water and sanitation in Mathare has continued to sharpen as the population increases and water demand and…
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The Water Justice Manifesto
Endorse the Water Justice Manifesto here! The undersigned organizations, Indigenous Peoples, social movements and water defenders address the United Nations at the 2023 UN Water Conference to amplify the voices of the unheard and insist that the following fundamental issues be placed at the center of water policies at the global, regional, national and subnational…
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Water is Life, Water Justice For All
By: Meera Karunananthan and Marcela Olivera For more than two decades The Blue Planet Project (BPP) has worked with global frontline communities struggling for water justice—with more than 300 communities successfully taking water back into public hands. BPP takes a feminist and anti-colonial approach that centers around women, Indigenous Peoples and marginalized communities. Water is life According…
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Launch of the People’s Water Forum and the Blue February campaign: Towards the 2023 UN Water Conference
Building on more than two decades of opposition to the corporate capture of global water governance at the World Water Forum, held every three years, Global Water Justice Movements have come together to form a permanent People’s Water Forum. As the UN prepares to host its first conference on water in 40 years, the 2023…
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‘Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services’
From 29th November to 2nd December the Blue Planet Project joined over a thousand representatives from over one hundred countries, from grassroots movements, advocacy, human rights, and development organisations, feminist movements, trade unions, and other civil society organisations, in Santiago, Chile, and virtually, to discuss the critical role of public services for our future. Read…
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Llamamiento en Defensa del Agua / Appeal in Defense of Water
A propósito de la próxima conferencia sobre agua de la ONU en Marzo de 2023 / Towards the next UN Water Conference in March 2023 (English follows) Llamamiento en Defensa del Agua A propósito de la próxima conferencia sobre agua de la ONU en Marzo de 2023 Ante la convocatoria realizada por la Asamblea General…
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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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The Blue Planet Project and the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum
A key member of the International Steering Committee of the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum/Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME 2022), the Blue Planet Project will be strongly represented in Dakar, Senegal from March 21-26th as the Global Water Justice Movement (GWJM) challenges the corporate water agenda of the World Water Forum. Learn more about FAME…
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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 —…