Water Justice News
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Barlow says water privatisation is failing Indian cities
May 21, 2014 – 9:21am Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow tweets: Water privatisation failing Indian cities. http://t.co/us5mYdyyJN — Maude Barlow (@MaudeBarlow) May 20, 2014 She cites a Time of India article that reports, “On Monday, the priva…
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Thessaloniki votes on water privatization
May 20, 2014 – 8:00pm Solidarity with our Greek water justice allies as a water privatization scheme they are opposing goes to a local vote tomorrow (Sunday May 18). Ekathimerini.com reports, “Opponents of plans to privatize EYATH, the state-run compa…
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Water increasingly being used as a weapon in war, says Barlow
May 19, 2014 – 1:00pm Photo from IPS. The Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) reports, “Maude Barlow, who represents both the Council of Canadians and Food and Water Watch, told IPS water is being increasingly and deliberately used a a weapon of wa…
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Blue Planet Project calls for right to water in SDG process
May 17, 2014 – 4:50pm Photo: Karunananthan meets with Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Korosi, a co-chair of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. On May 7, Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan addressed an Informal Meeti…
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Barlow expresses solidarity with Turkish miners
May 15, 2014 – 9:22am Photo: Thousands rallied in Istanbul yesterday to protest mine safety in Turkey. Photo by G ndem El i/ Demotix/ Corbis. The death toll at the coal mine in Soma, Turkey now stands at 282 people, with 150 others still missing. I…
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WIN! Cambuquira, Brazil a blue community
May 8, 2014 – 10:18am Cambuquira, Brazil has become the first blue community in Latin America! Photo: Excerpt of the municipal resolution committing Cambuquira to the principles of being a blue community. Its municipal council passed the resolution…
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Water justice groups call for the UN to remember its commitments to the human right to water
May 5, 2014 – 1:21pm The Blue Planet Project is participating in discussions at the United Nations this week on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG agenda being discussed at the UN is crucial as it will shape the priorities for development ai…
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Gabriel Resources to pursue investor-state claim against Romania over gold mine
May 2, 2014 – 8:12am Whitehorse-based Gabriel Resources is preparing an international arbitration case against the Romanian government because it rejected the proposed Rosia Montana gold and silver mine. This massive open-pit mine in the Carpathian mou…
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7,000 march against privatized water in Chile
May 2, 2014 – 8:09am Photo: Chilean water is for all. No to the water code. Photo by Belinda Torres-Leclercq/ Santiago Times The Santiago Times reports, “A diverse group of over 70 organizations and thousands of citizens gathered in Parque Almagro in…
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Rights of Nature and the Economics of the Biosphere: The Stillheart Declaration
In October 2013, on Ohlone Indigenous land, Global Exchange and partners held a 3-day summit at the Stillheart Institute in Woodside, California. Nestled in the California Redwood forest a counsel of 32 global social movement leaders including Indigenous leaders, deep ecologists, grassroots justice advocates, economists, climate experts, localization activists, globalization thinkers, writers and researchers were…