This tuesday evening, Ydelso Hernández of the Comando Unitario de Lucha de Cajamarca (Peru), presented to representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a preliminary injunction and a petition for a meeting on the Conga mining project. “Our goal in Lima is to present a paper to the   Read More ...

Update on the current situation On 30th May, the Madrid government announced its decision to give up for the time being, the privatization of the Canal Isabel II. Due to the actual economic situation posing an obstacle to its sale to private companies. However, it still announced the creation of   Read More ...

Payments for ecosystem services look like the prelude to the greatest privatisation since enclosure. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying “This is mine”, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes,   Read More ...

Press release of the Berliner Wassertisch. On 13 February 2011, a referendum initiated by citizens (“Unser Wasser” = Our Water) was won by votes from 666 235 Berliners. It required the disclosure of the sales contracts, secret until now, concerning 49.90% of the water in Berlin. This victory will bring   Read More ...

Big victory for the movements, the Constitutional Court blocks the privatization of water and local public services. Today, 20th July, the Constitutional Court has given back the voice of the Italian citizens and the democracy of our country. It does so by declaring unconstitutional, therefore inadmissible, Article 4 of the   Read More ...

Marco Arana, the leader of the movement against CONGA (a giant mining project which is threatening to drain the lakes supplying groundwater in the region of Cajamarca) was arrested on 4th July. The “CONGA no Va” movement was presented in a “Right to Water” workshop session at FAME (Françoise Chambeu)   Read More ...

The defenders of the Chilean village Caimanes are facing legal action today after having denounced that water is being usurped by one of the wealthiest families in the world. You are surely already aware of what is happening to the village of Caimanes in central Chile (see the documentary “Damnés   Read More ...

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 ...