Water Justice News
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Right to Water Gets Major Boost in a Historic Judgement by the Mumbai High Court
December 16, 2014 – 2:01pm Struggle for access to water by slum dwellers got a major boost in India with the judgement on December 15th by a Mumbai High Court bench presided by Justice Abhay Oak and Justice A S Gadkari. They ordered that whether homes …
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100,000 march against water charges in Ireland, next major protest on January 31
December 11, 2014 – 8:44am Photo by BreakingNews.ie. More than 100,000 people marched in Dublin yesterday against austerity imposed water charges in Ireland. The Guardian reports, “Tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to the introduction of w…
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Blue Planet Project delivers ‘lumps of coal’ to government and corporate offices today
December 10, 2014 – 4:06pm The Blue Planet Project and the Council of Canadians took part in actions in Ottawa and Toronto today – International Human Rights Day – to highlight the verdict of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on Canadian mining in Lat…
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Blue Planet Project opposes the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River
December 5, 2014 – 3:54pm Photo of Ilisu Dam construction by the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, November 2014. The Blue Planet Project is opposed to the Ilisu Dam which would flood the ancient city of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey and the s…
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Blue Planet Project organizes against prepaid water meters in Cape Town
December 4, 2014 – 8:15am Benson at a participatory workshop yesterday helping to design a water justice campaign. The Blue Planet Project sees prepaid water meters as a violation to the right to water and sanitation and is organizing against them …
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Council of Canadians demands justice for Mariano Abarca on the 5th anniversary of his murder
November 27, 2014 – 9:47am Five years ago today, anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca Roblero was killed in Chiapas in southern Mexico. He had blamed the Calgary-based mining company Blackfire Exploration Ltd. for contaminated local rivers, the loss of…
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The right to water struggle continues in El Salvador
November 13, 2014 – 9:00am Karunananthan and Spronk march with 5,000 people for water justice in San Salvador, March 20, 2014. The Blue Planet Project has supported the call for the right to water to be recognized in El Salvador. Unfortunately, IPS…
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Council of Canadians supports the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature
November 11, 2014 – 3:33pm The Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project support the assertion that nature has rights. In short that means we believe that natural ecosystems including trees, oceans, animals and mountains have the right to exist,…
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Portable toilet protest in Cape Town draws attention to right to sanitation violations
November 7, 2014 – 8:00am Photo by Koni Benson. Pota pota toilets are a huge issue in Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town-based Blue Planet Project organizer Koni Benson has brought this human right to sanitation issue to our attention. Pota pota …
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Barlow denounces water grab for fracking in New York state
November 3, 2014 – 7:28pm Barlow speaking in Corning, New York on October 18. Twitter photo by People for a Healthy Environment. Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow recently spoke in Corning, which is situated in the Finger Lakes bioregion of …