Right to Water
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The Blue Planet Project’s World Water Day 2025 Reflection
World Water Day 2025 Reflection This year, we at the Blue Planet Project would like to use the World Water Day commemoration to reflect on the centrality of water to life. Last year, we offered a series of critiques of the United Nations (UN) and positioned ourselves outside of UN frameworks, conversations, and agendas; but…
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The Financialization of Nature (FON) is a Clear and Present Danger to the Rights of Nature (RON)
From: NATURE – COMMONS OR COMMODITY? HOW THE COMMODIFICATION AND FINANCIALIZATION OF NATURE ENDANGER THE RIGHTS OF NATURE A Discussion Paper by Maude Barlow on behalf of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature _________________________________________________________________________ Mother Earth is in peril. It is very well documented that our planetary crisis includes climate chaos due to…
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A Crisis for Who?! Social Reproduction and The Social Relations of the Cape Town Water Crisis
Blue Planet Project Research Fellow Adrian Murray traveled to Cape Town in March, at the height of the city’s water crisis. These are his reflections, accompanied by photos exploring the the daily experience of water and sanitation in one of the city’s many informal settlements. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js After several years of drought, water levels in the…
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The Fall of Prepaid Water Meters in Ghana: An account of civil society organizations’ campaign for human right to water
A new report by the Water Citizens’ Network in Ghana traces the history of resistance to pre-paid water metres and the successful campaign to stop the Ghanaian government’s most recent attempts to implement metering schemes. The report argues that the government’s latest initiative – a direct result of pressures from the World Bank and International…
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2nd International Gathering of Social Movements On Water
The 2nd International Gathering brings together people directly impacted by water struggles and social movement water groups, plus — water rights attorneys and policy makers, researchers, scholars, social workers, youth and elders from across the U.S., First Nations and international countries. Your participation will strengthen the global movement for the human right to water and…
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Three Submissions That, Taken Together and Adopted, Protect Our Human Right2water
Our human Right2Water is of such fundamental importance that it should not be used as a political football by political parties, none of whom can claim the support of a majority of Irish citizens. Since 2014 Irish Citizens have led the way in defending our human Right2Water against commodification and privatisation. In doing so Right2Water,…
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Our Right to Water: Assessing progress five years after the UN recognition of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution recognizing the human rights to water and sanitation as “essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life.” This paper examines what has transpired in the five years since these resolutions were adopted and what remains to be done.
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Statement on private sector participation in the implementation of Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
In advance of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development to take place in Addis Ababa from July 13-16, the Blue Planet Project, Public Services International, Education International, Sisters of Mercy – Mercy International Association, Franciscans International and the Transnational Institute have spearheaded a global petition calling for safeguards against the corporate takeover of…
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Statement on private sector participation in the implementation of Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
In advance of the United Nations Summit on Financing for Development to take place in Addis Ababa from July 13-17, the Blue Planet Project, Public Services International, Education International, Sisters of Mercy – Mercy International Association, Franciscans International and the Transnational Institute have spearheaded a global petition calling for safeguards against the corporate takeover of…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Post 2015 Declaration must contain the human right to water and sanitation say hundreds of civil society organizations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Civil society organizations from around the world are making an urgent call for the human right to water and sanitation (HRTWS) to be explicitly named in the Declaration of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Today, 621 organizations collectively representing billions of people globally issued a joint letter to United Nations (UN) Member States…