🔔CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS🔔
This year ' flagship report on Minority and Indigenous Trends will focus on water rights.
Contributors are paid a fixed rate so this is great opportunity for members to publicise their work.
Submission details➡️minorityrights.org/jobs/trends202
End Water Poverty
@EndWaterPoverty
Global coalition campaigning for governments to realise people's human rights to water and sanitation. #ClaimYourWaterRights
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READ: //'s latest 'State of the World’s Drinking Water' report shows progress on the right to safe water is "fragile and inequitable" with the climate crisis exacerbating water insecurity & billions of people's rights still denied.
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Your helpful reminder that we have loads of clips presenting findings from the accountability for water programme on our website accountabilityforwater.org/webinars
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[2/2] "We can only appeal to government to help us stop people cutting down trees, then we can start having water." - Richard Katai, Kapopa farmer.
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[1/2] Great video with #ClaimYourWaterRights + climate justice campaigner Jackson Mwenya () on how deforestation is damaging watersheds and depleting streams in Kapopa Forest, Zambia.
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Join the tweet storm! 📢📲 for the 6 months of struggle for water and 5 months of impunity in #Querétaro💧💰 We call for international solidarity during #COP27 and #EPU23 because our territory is exemplifies that #ThereIsNoClimateJusticeWithoutHumanRights✊🏽🌎
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In solidarity with prisoners of conscience in Egypt, EWP signed 's petition urging to open civic space and release everyone arbitrarily detained ahead of COP27.
#FreeThemAll
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EVENT: 'Kenya Accountability for Water Workshop'
Join to discuss policies + practices that promote or hinder accountability in water & sanitation service provision in Kenya.
Register➡️eventbrite.co.uk/e/kenya-accoun
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EVENT: NGOs with consultative status can register for an interactive hearing on Tuesday 6 Dec at 10am EST.
The hearing will cover various topics including increasing civil society participation & access to UN processes.
Register before 14 Nov⬇️
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🚨 RESEARCH WEBINAR
Join us for the 2nd session of our multi-country webinar series as we share research results on the dynamics of water accountability in Kenya
📅 10th November
⏲️ 11:00 – 12:30 GMT
Register here👉🏾 rb.gy/mbyk7k
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Building the capacity of #CSOs and #media to put #water at the front burner of the electoral process by making it an electoral issue #ClaimYourWaterRights #water4votes
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Nouvel article !
Tout ce que vous devez savoir sur la #COP27 :
- les enjeux
- les demandes des ONG du
- et la mobilisation des acteurs de l'eau💧
A retrouver juste ici ⤵️
coalition-eau.org/actualite/la-c
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On 16-18 November will hold its sixth pan-European intergovernmental meeting in Geneva.
This is a chance for states, development agencies & civil society to discuss water rights violations in Europe.
➡️unece.org/environment-po
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Betrayed by unfulfilled promises but not anymore!
A village in Sokoto have resolved that except they are given access to drinking water, they won't vote for any candidate.
When people know their rights; they take action. #ClaimYourWaterRights
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New paper!
Latest paper with and discusses the importance of engaging with the rights of sanitation workers from equity and inclusion perspectives:
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READ: Price-gauging, safety fears & civil society repression have excluded Global South activists from #COP27.
"Activists say attending the UN climate talks remains a privilege for those that can secure enough funding & accreditation".
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[2/2] También puede leer el informe en línea.
Versión amigable➡️ohchr.org/sites/default/
Versión completa➡️undocs.org/Home/Mobile?Fi
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[1/2] ¿Se perdió el lanzamiento del informe de sobre los derechos de las comunidades rurales empobrecidas?
Puedes ver la entrevista del Relator con 's + escuchar a las comunidades que reclaman sus derechos en🇧🇴,🇵🇪 y mas➡️
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What is the Network in Defense of Water and Life #REDAVI?✊🏽💧One of the many fronts organized by the human right to water & against water privatization of #LeyConcesiones in #Querétaro Find out at 👉🏾 bit.ly/REDAVIM #AguasConLaLeyDeAguas💧⚠️
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🔔FINAL CALL🔔
This is your last chance to vote for the People's Choice Award. We encourage members to show their support for , who have been nominated as a finalist for their 'Keep Water in Public Hands' campaign.
Vote➡️transformativecities.org/2022award/
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🙋♀️ Ahir la nostra companya va participar a Ginebra en la taula rodona sobre Desenvolupament del Fòrum Social del Consell de Drets Humans: 💦Aigua per als drets humans i el Desenvolupament sostenible.
📝 Aviat publicarem la intervenció sencera, atentes!
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[2/2] You can also read the report online.
User-friendly version➡️ohchr.org/sites/default/
Full version➡️undocs.org/Home/Mobile?Fi
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[1/2] Missed the launch of 's report on the rights of impoverished rural communities?
You can watch the Rapporteur's insightful interview with 's + hear from communities claiming💧&🚽rights in🇧🇴,🇵🇪,🇸🇳 & the Mekong Delta➡️youtube.com/watch?v=xcNdBV
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EVENT: Want to know the findings of @SRWatSan's report on #water & #sanitation rights of rural communities? And hear directly from communities claiming their rights?
Join us as we make invisible rights holders visible!
21 Oct 2022
16:00 CEST
bit.ly/3S6ukaq
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You have a chance to join a delegation of 12 young water professionals to participate in the #UN2023WaterConference in New York.
The Call for Applications for & "Youth Action for SDG 6" Fellowship is now open.
Deadline: 25 Nov 2022
Link: iwa-network.org/news/youthacti
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Support striking sanitation workers.
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The future leaders of Iran need to be real and honest servants of the nation.
Iranians don't need ambitious social climbers. #Water_bankruptcy could end a civilization, & if there's no good plan to save it, Iran will die & millions of helpless people will have to migrate.
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Didn't have time to apply for special accreditation to attend the #UN2023WaterConference back in July?
Registered civil society organisations now have another opportunity to apply. Deadline: 2 December.
Apply➡️indico.un.org/event/1001019/
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Do you want to attend the 2023 @UN_Water conference in New York?
Civil society can apply for special accreditation. The deadline is 15 July.
More info
un.org/en/civil-socie
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El último informe d Pedro Arrojo, Relator Especial de Naciones Unidas para los derechos al agua y al saneamiento, pone el foco ahí: en la situación de estos derechos en las zonas rurales empobrecidas.
Ahí va hilo con las ppales recomendaciones 🧵2/6
📄ongawa.org/agua-y-saneami
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Civil society interested in enforcing legal accountability can also work with groups like & .
ECCHR➡️ecchr.eu/en/
ICNL➡️icnl.org
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. also brought a claim against mining company Vedanta through English courts⬇️
Some EWP members in🇿🇲similarly support communities whose water has been contaminated by transnational brewing companies to claim their rights using various accountability strategies.
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. holds to account transnationals who commit human rights violations - including water/environmental pollution - through UK courts.
Some EWP members work with communities in the Niger Delta whose water rights have been violated by oil companies #ClaimYourWaterRights
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Legal accountability enables civil society to:
💧Speak 'power to power'
💧Pursue restorative justice
💧Establish legal precedents
💧Deter corporate impunity
Litigation happens at various levels. This workshop will focus on holding to account transnationals in their host country.
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.'s Nick Hepworth: 'We don't have to look far for images of water injustice - whether it's extractive or industrial pollution, over-abstraction, water grabbing or the violation of people's rights to water & sanitation.'
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🔔Starting now🔔
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See you in court!
@water_witness, @A4W_programme & @LeighDay_Law are hosting a workshop for civil society to use the law to address water rights abuses by multinational corporations & the private sector.
Thurs 3 Nov
8am GMT
Register
eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-use-t
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Calling activists and CSO leaders! If you want to participate in the #UN2023WaterConference but you don't have existing UN accreditation, you can apply for special accreditation. Deadline is 2nd Dec!
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Do you want to participate in the #UN2023WaterConference?
Be part of #WaterAction!
Follow this link
bit.ly/Water2023Accred for the NGO and other stakeholders Special Accreditation Process
This is the second and final round.
Apply by 2 December 2022
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Honoured to join MPs and CSOs from #Uganda and across Africa championing water, sanitation & hygiene through #WASH parliamentary caucuses. supports such efforts in countries like Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Pakistan and UK. I salute your efforts ! #WaterAction
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