The Blue Planet Project seeks local reports on Right to Water
Earlier this year, the Blue Planet Project launched Maude Barlow's report: ‘’. The Blue Planet Project is calling for domestic right to water plans that will form a local sixth chapter to Maude Barlow's five-chapter report.
Corporations are scrambling to take advantage of increasing economic instability and an ever-deepening global water crisis to promote the commodification of water through the so-called green economy, austerity measures, land grabs, water markets and the privatisation of water services. Over a year after the historic UN resolutions recognising water and sanitation as a human right, it is imperative that communities and civil society define this right on our terms and demand its implementation.
Earlier this year, the Blue Planet Project launched Maude Barlow's report: ‘Our Right to Water: A People's Guide to Implementing the United Nations' Recognition of Water and Sanitation as a Human Right’.
We are now hoping for domestic right to water plans along the same lines. With this in mind, the Blue Planet Project is seeking requests for proposals on the following:
1. A 10-15 page report examining violations of the right to water within the context of mining, large dams, austerity measures, land grabs, water privatisation, discrimination, climate change, free trade or hydraulic fracturing. The paper must include recommendations for the implementation of the right to water domestically.
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2. A 10-15 page action plan for a civil society campaign on the right to water within a local context. Questions explored may include:
- What measures need to be taken to ensure the local implementation of the right to water?
- How can civil society promote the right to water locally?
- Where are the gaps that need to be addressed?
These papers will form a local sixth chapter to Maude Barlow's five-chapter report.
Deadline: Please provide a detailed outline by 4 November.
We will contact the selected authors about producing a final draft for 9 February 2012. We have limited funds and will only be able to select the first three submissions that meet our criteria.
To make a submission or for further information, please contact Meera Karunananthan: [email][email protected]