Right to Water
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Right to Water Gets Major Boost in a Historic Judgement by the Mumbai High Court
December 16, 2014 – 2:01pm Struggle for access to water by slum dwellers got a major boost in India with the judgement on December 15th by a Mumbai High Court bench presided by Justice Abhay Oak and Justice A S Gadkari. They ordered that whether homes …
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Blue Planet Project organizes against prepaid water meters in Cape Town
December 4, 2014 – 8:15am Benson at a participatory workshop yesterday helping to design a water justice campaign. The Blue Planet Project sees prepaid water meters as a violation to the right to water and sanitation and is organizing against them …
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The right to water struggle continues in El Salvador
November 13, 2014 – 9:00am Karunananthan and Spronk march with 5,000 people for water justice in San Salvador, March 20, 2014. The Blue Planet Project has supported the call for the right to water to be recognized in El Salvador. Unfortunately, IPS…
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Portable toilet protest in Cape Town draws attention to right to sanitation violations
November 7, 2014 – 8:00am Photo by Koni Benson. Pota pota toilets are a huge issue in Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town-based Blue Planet Project organizer Koni Benson has brought this human right to sanitation issue to our attention. Pota pota …
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Windsor chapter says from Detroit to Dublin water is a human right
November 2, 2014 – 8:00am Windsor chapter with the Detroit skyline in the background. The Council of Canadians Windsor chapter gathered on the riverfront yesterday to say that water is a human right. Chapter activist Randy Emerson says, “We braved…
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Blue Planet Project in solidarity with Irish right to water protests
October 29, 2014 – 8:51am On October 11, as many as 100,000 people marched in Dublin, Ireland against austerity and water charges. An even larger protest is expected across the country on November 1. The Irish Examiner reports, “A mass wave of water p…
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United Nations establishes a Working Group for a Business and Human Rights Treaty
October 27, 2014 – 8:15am The Council of Canadians has long opposed the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in ‘free trade’ agreements like NAFTA (where it is more commonly referred to as Chapter 11) and the yet-to-be-ratified Canada-Eur…
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UN rapporteurs deplore human rights violations in Detroit
October 24, 2014 – 11:59am Farha and de Albuquerque in Detroit. Photo by AP. On June 18, the Blue Planet Project and its allies submitted a report to Catarina de Albuquerque, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human right to drinking wat…
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UN special rapporteur on right to water now in Detroit
October 20, 2014 – 1:30pm UN experts tour Detroit neighbourhoods on Sunday. Photo by Michigan Welfare Rights Organization. On June 18, the Blue Planet Project, the Detroit People’s Water Board, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and Food &a…
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Massive right to water protests take place in Ireland
October 14, 2014 – 9:29am An estimated 100,000 people marched against water charges and austerity in the Irish capital of Dublin this past weekend. An even larger protest is expected on November 1. Vice reports, “[The Republic of] Ireland is set to be…