For the first time since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 60 years ago, the UN General Assembly has recognized the Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
“It was a great honour to be present as the UN General Assembly took this historic step forward in the struggle for a just world,”
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Maude Barlow, Blue Planet Project founder.
Read a press release from Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians celebrating the recognition of the human right to water and sanitation
Water Justice News
Former UN water advisor condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen0, Botswana Gazette, August 5, 2010
SPEECH: “The Human Right to Water and Sanitation” Intervention of the Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ambassador Pablo Solon, July 28, 2010
UN declares water, sanitation as human rights, Montreal Gazette, July 28, 2010
Maude Barlow on The World Today, BBC RAdio, July 28, 2010
UN to vote on right to water, Linda Diebel, The Toronto Star, July 27, 2010
Water to be a human right?, Martin Khor, Malaysia Star, July 26, 2010
Access to clean water is most violated human right, Maude Barlow, The Guardian (UK), July 21, 2010
Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body, Thalif Deen, IPS, July 19, 2010
The Right to Water, Mikhail Gorbachev, The New York Times, July 16, 2010
A human right Canada rejects: Access to clean water, Maude Barlow and Anil Naidoo, The Toronto Star, July 13, 2010
BLOG: Rio+20, Follow-up to the Earth Summit threatens to fail before it begins, May 20, 2010
BLOG: Ideology of water privatization stronger than ever at the World Bank, April 29, 2010
Anil Naidoo speaks at The Right to Water Conference Plenary Session (at approx. 1:45), March 29, 2010
BLOG: Video blog from Cochabamba, April 21, 2010
BLOG: Feria del Agua – Cochabamba, April 20, 2010
BLOG: Right to Water conference at Syracuse University, April 1, 2010
BLOG: World Water Day 2010, March 22, 2010
Toe to toe with the Bottled Water Industry Washington City Paper, March 17, 2010.
BLOG: Water Justice: the heart of Climate Justice, March 16, 2010
El abuso del agua y el cambio climático, Por Maude Barlow
