Water Justice News
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UPDATE: Campero highlights water inequalities in Mexico City
“Activists from 17 countries in Latin America warned that ‘Mexico has water privatization happening now’ at the interational forum, ‘The human right to water and sanitation in the constitutions: Progress and Challenges in Latin America’, where they discussed the situation in the region in terms of access to water, through the exposure of the experiences…
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NEWS: Civil society tells European Commission to stop promoting water privatization
NewEurope reports, “The European Commission admitted to promoting water privatisation in countries like Greece and Portugal that use the bailout plan, as a condition to continue receiving the aid funds. Civil society groups (including the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project) have written to commissioner Olli Rehn to demand the cessation of pressure…
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UPDATE: Blue Planet at ‘Human Right to Water’ public forum in Mexico City
Today, Ottawa-based Council of Canadians water campaigner Meera Karunananthan and Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena will be attending the “Human Right to Water and Sanitation in Constitutions: Progress and Challenges in Latin America” public forum in Mexico City. This photo was taken yesterday, during a break at the Fourth Hemispheric Network…
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UPDATE: Karunananthan & Campero at La Red Vida meeting in Mexico City
Ottawa-based Council of Canadians water campaigner Meera Karunananthan and Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena are attending the Fourth Hemispheric Network Assembly for La Red Vida (Vigilancia Interamericana para la Defensa y Derecho al Agua/ Inter-American Network for the Defense of the Right to Water), which is taking place October 14-18 in…
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NEWS: Geoengineering threat to Haida Gwaii ecosystems
Martin Lukacs writes in the Guardian UK that, “A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal. Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a ‘blatant violation’ of…
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UPDATE: Karunananthan & Campero at La Red Vida meeting
Ottawa-based Council of Canadians water campaigner Meera Karunananthan and Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena are at La Red Vida (Vigilancia Interamericana para la Defensa y Derecho al Agua/ Inter-American Network for the Defense of the Right to Water) meetings this week in Mexico City. The bi-annual meeting of this network of…
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NEWS: Canadian mining and violence against Diodora Hernandez and German Chub Choc
Eleanor Millard writes in the Yukon News, “At a gold mine site in San Miguel Ixtahuacan, an older Mayan woman reaches into the open window of our small bus and holds both my arms firmly. Thank you for coming, Diodora Hernandez says in Spanish. ‘Buena suerte’, good luck, is all I can think of saying…
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UPDATE: Council and Blue Planet oppose El Mauro tailings dam in Chile
IPS has reported, “People in the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile will suffer severe health problems if water pollution produced by (the El Mauro) tailings dam built by the Los Pelambres mining company is not cleaned up, experts warn. …Seven kilometres long and 270 metres high, it is the largest toxic chemical dump…
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VIDEO: Women protest Canadian mining company’s forest cutting in Greece
Our friend ???????? ?????????????, has shared with us an 11-minute video of a protest against the destruction being caused by Vancouver-based mining company Eldorado Gold at their new mine site in Greece. The web-page with the video says (in Greek), “On the morning of October 12, fifty women went to see with their own eyes…
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UPDATE: More Blue October events!
Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena notes that, “More countries are joining ‘Blue October’ with a great diversity of activities!” As seen in this photo, she highlights, “In Perú, a March to raise awareness about water issues took place!” Council of Canadians chapters are encouraged to join this “international month of action…