Water Justice News
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Violations of right to water in Detroit highlighted, UN responds
June 25, 2014 – 8:34am VIDEO: Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands, Democracy Now! June 24, 2014. Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan interviewed at 50:24. On June 18, t…
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Is the UN turning its back on the human right to water?
By focusing on access rather than on rights, the UN sustainable development goal on water won’t eliminate inequality The Guardian, Thursday 19 June 2014 by Meera Karunananthan
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Temacapulín, Jalisco in a key moment of the struggle
June 20, 2014 – 3:58pm Temacapulín (Temaca) in Mexico has won numerous verdicts that dictate the building of the Zapotillo dam wall should not pass the 80 m limit. However, construction continues and the estimate is that the wall is already this heigh…
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Right to water must be recognized in Sustainable Development Goals, say civil society groups
June 17, 2014 – 4:30pm New York City, June 16 – Civil society groups were alarmed to discover today that they had suddenly been shut out of a key UN meeting on sustainable development. The meeting is the 12th of thirteen sessions that have taken pla…
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Human right to water and sanitation violated as thousands lose water connections in Detroit: UN asked to intervene
June 17, 2014 – 4:06pm A report was submitted today to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation decrying the gross human rights violations taking place in Detroit where thousands have lost their water connections…
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Campero questions Water Law in Mexico City
June 16, 2014 – 2:58pm Photo: Campero at the protest for the human right to water outside the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City, June 9. Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero has tweeted, “COMDA [Coalition of Mexican Org…
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SDGs Must Recognize Human Right to Water and Sanitation
June 13, 2014 – 3:10pm Nearly 300 organizations sent a letter today demanding that the human right to water and sanitation be included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The right was excluded from the most recent version of the SDG text t…
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Blue Planet Project and allies appeal to Human Rights Council on SDGs
June 12, 2014 – 10:22am Despite the United Nations General Assembly recognizing the human right to water and sanitation in July 2010, these rights have been omitted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework document. The SDGs are highly sign…