Sign the civil society statement and join the campaign to stop UN corporate capture! In June this year, governments gather in Brazil for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development to agree on measures to address the multiple crises the world is facing on issues such as energy, food, climate   Read More ...

We commit to take action in solidarity with Palestinian human rights, including the human right to water. Occupied Palestine – For years, the United Nations Human Rights Committee and other UN bodies have found Israel to be in violation of Palestinians human right to water and sanitation as part of   Read More ...

This summary is an effort to capture the discussion of the session. However, not everything that was said might be reflected in the document. Many of the things said were proposals and are not necessarily wide agreements, commitments or consensus points. This should not be seen as a consensus document   Read More ...

Workshop on Rio+20 – Marseille March 16th – Summary of the discussions. It is necessary to develop a unified / common strategy to strengthen the fight against the privatisation, commercialisation and financialisation of life.  That is the common point of our struggles. The “green economy” is a way to promote   Read More ...

The water chapter of the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), A Budget for the Rest of Us, calls for the federal government to carry out their international legal obligations on the human right to water and sanitation by committing $9.336 billion to critical water services. The water chapter highlighted the UN’s   Read More ...

Campaigners pan global water conference for allowing business access to senior government officials and raise concerns that delegates are watering down human rights commitments. Diplomats, business leaders, and scientific experts are gathering in southern France this week for an international conference billed as a “platform for solutions” to the global   Read More ...

Currently the Tsilhqot’in Nation is in an environmental process with the  Canadian Government. Taseko Mines limited, a Vancouver Gold and Copper mine company, is lobbying the Canadian Government  for second time after its proposed mine has been rejected last November by the Environment Minister. This so called new prosperity mine   Read More ...

Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012. In less than six months, the UN summit in Rio de Janeiro will take place ( 20-22 June 2011), twenty years after the historic Earth Summit.   Read More ...