The Justicia Hídrica alliance: research and action on water accumulation, conflict and civil society strategies. Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University Netherlands / Catholic University Peru. Globalization and a neoliberal policy climate allowed some actors to concentrate water and decision-making power at the expense of less powerful ones, threatening their water and   Read More ...

We, as peasants’ and farmers’ organizations from countries all over the world, members of La Via Campesina, met between the 12th and 17th of March 2012, for the Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille, France. Among others, the testimonies from Turkish, Brazilian, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Portugal, Italy, French, and Mexican delegates   Read More ...

Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) do not have access to adequate, safe water supplies. This long-standing problem has significantly hindered social and economic development in the OPT and denied many communities their rights to an adequate standard of living and to food, health and work. Palestinian per capita   Read More ...

Disgusted with the authorities, hundreds of disgusted peasants including more than fifty kidney patients, came all the way from North Central Province of Sri Lanka to UN/FAO office in capital Colombo on 17th instant and demanded compensation for the damages done to the farmers, the farmland and the water resources.   Read More ...

European coordination Via Campesina with other organizations, like FoEE and Attac Europe, is preparing the European Nyeleni Forum on Food Sovereignty at Krems, Austria, 16-21 August 2011. This forum is the attempt to repeat the Nyeleny food sovereignty forum, held in Mali 2007, here in Europe, and develop a clear   Read More ...

Today, in Meknès in the center-north of Morocco, 7 inhabitants of Ben S’mim convened again at Court of Appeal for having refused, in 2007, the industrial exploitation of the water of their source. The court, after having heard the pleadings of their lawyers, put the judgment on ‘‘deliberation’‘. This judgment   Read More ...