Water Justice News
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Windsor chapter says from Detroit to Dublin water is a human right
November 2, 2014 – 8:00am Windsor chapter with the Detroit skyline in the background. The Council of Canadians Windsor chapter gathered on the riverfront yesterday to say that water is a human right. Chapter activist Randy Emerson says, “We braved…
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Blue Planet Project in solidarity with Irish right to water protests
October 29, 2014 – 8:51am On October 11, as many as 100,000 people marched in Dublin, Ireland against austerity and water charges. An even larger protest is expected across the country on November 1. The Irish Examiner reports, “A mass wave of water p…
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United Nations establishes a Working Group for a Business and Human Rights Treaty
October 27, 2014 – 8:15am The Council of Canadians has long opposed the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in ‘free trade’ agreements like NAFTA (where it is more commonly referred to as Chapter 11) and the yet-to-be-ratified Canada-Eur…
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UN rapporteurs deplore human rights violations in Detroit
October 24, 2014 – 11:59am Farha and de Albuquerque in Detroit. Photo by AP. On June 18, the Blue Planet Project and its allies submitted a report to Catarina de Albuquerque, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to drinking wat…
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Vancouver company pursues controversial mine in Romania
October 20, 2014 – 3:07pm Photo by MiningWatch Romania. Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold, the company behind the open pit Skouries gold-copper mine set to open next year in the Halkidiki peninsula of northern Greece, is pursuing a destructive mine in …
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UN special rapporteur on right to water now in Detroit
October 20, 2014 – 1:30pm UN experts tour Detroit neighbourhoods on Sunday. Photo by Michigan Welfare Rights Organization. On June 18, the Blue Planet Project, the Detroit People’s Water Board, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and Food &a…
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Massive right to water protests take place in Ireland
October 14, 2014 – 9:29am An estimated 100,000 people marched against water charges and austerity in the Irish capital of Dublin this past weekend. An even larger protest is expected on November 1. Vice reports, “[The Republic of] Ireland is set to be…
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United Nations special rapporteur on water and sanitation to visit Detroit
October 13, 2014 – 5:15pm Photo: Karunananthan presents de Albuquerque with right to water reports in Marseille, France in March 2012. MLive reports, “Two experts who report to the United Nations on water and housing issues plan to visit Detroit on…
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Mehdiganj opposes Coca-Cola bottling plant
October 11, 2014 – 5:10pm Photo: Barlow in Plachimada, 2004. Bloomberg reports that farmers are fighting a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. “In Mehdiganj, about 20 kilometers from the holy ci…
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Water a weapon of war in Iraq and Syria
October 6, 2014 – 9:50am In May, Council of Canadians chairperson and Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow stated that water is increasingly and deliberately being used as a weapon of war. She said, “Water as a weapon of war is a strong argument …