Water Justice News
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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…
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Privatising public services is no way to fund sustainable development
Co-authored by Mark…
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Blue Planet Project celebrates one-year anniversary of water win in Thessaloniki
May 18, 2015 – 3:25pm The Blue Planet Project extends its solidarity and congratulations to our Greek water justice allies on the one-year anniversary of the referendum on water privatization in Thessaloniki. Just over a year ago, Ekathimerini.com rep…
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Council of Canadians protests OceanaGold investor-state challenge
May 16, 2015 – 8:00am Morgan-Welden (centre) at the action. Photo by MISN. The Council of Canadians joined with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) yesterday in a “Stop the Suits! Close the (Kangaroo) Court” protest in Toronto. MISN rep…
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Save Our Water, End Investor Rights
May 14, 2015 – 12:00pm By Maude Barlow and Meera Karunananthan. Published in the Huffington Post, May 13, 2015 As the world looks for innovative solutions to solve the rapidly worsening water crisis, two Salvadoran experts are touring Canada this wee…
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Blue Planet Project calls for explicit recognition of right to water in UN development agenda
May 13, 2015 – 6:20pm Karunananthan speaks at the UN, May 2014 The Blue Planet Project is opposed to the marginalization of the right to water and sanitation in the proposed political declaration for the United Nation’s Post-2015 Development Agenda…
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Blue Planet Project calls for right to water to be named in Post-2015 Development Agenda
May 8, 2015 – 3:59pm The Blue Planet Project has been working with allies around the world to ensure that the human right to water and sanitation is explicitly named in the United Nations (UN) Declaration for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which in…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Post 2015 Declaration must contain the human right to water and sanitation say hundreds of civil society organizations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Civil society organizations from around the world are making an urgent call for the human right to water and sanitation (HRTWS) to be explicitly named in the Declaration of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Today, 621 organizations collectively representing billions of people globally issued a joint letter to United Nations (UN) Member States…
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United Against Austerity forum takes place in Vancouver
April 29, 2015 – 10:02am A ‘United Against Austerity’ public forum took place in Vancouver last night. It included a territorial welcome by Audrey Siegl from the Musqueam nation, speakers Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Reilly Yeo, Arielle dela Cruz Yip,…