The July 28th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) is planning to consider a resolution presented by the Bolivian government to declare the "right to water and sanitation" . Tuesday begins the Week of Global Action in promoting this right.
"To get a strong resolution adopted by the General Assembly should draw the attention of governments to support the human right to water and sanitation, and to demand the recognition of these rights in the clearest language possible, " says a call from the Blue Planet Project, a movement of international civil society against the privatization of water, based in Canada.
Of the approximately 6500 million people in the world today, 884 million lack access to safe water and 2.6 billion have no sanitation minimum services.
On July 12 the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced it had submitted the proposed declaration of human right to water at the UN, and appealed to the social organizations of various regions of world to persuade heads of state to approve the request.
expected a heated debate within the General Assembly. Is that several industrialized nations have been working to prevent water is recognized as a human right. Among them are Canada, Australia, United States and Britain.
differences between industrialized countries and those who are not seem to become more evident in the treatment of this issue. "I refuse to see this as a North-South, but it begins to seem a lot," he told IPS the founder of Blue Planet Project, Maude Barlow.
In a letter sent to representatives of 192 UN Member States, the activist says that "in 2010 is not an exaggeration to say the difficulty of access to drinking water is one of the worst human rights violations. "
Barlow explains that Canada in particular has slowed the most basic steps towards international recognition of access to water as a universal right.
Meanwhile, another member of the Blue Planet Project, Anil Naidoo, told IPS that "local and international organizations who fight for justice in access to water claim the leadership of the UN to recognize clearly that it is a human right , like sanitation. "
Naidoo has been working with dozens of developing countries to promote the document submitted by Bolivia. More than twenty have sponsored. "As we advance claim that the text of the resolution to be strong and leave no doubt that water and sanitation are human rights," he said. Real World Radio
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Note: I wish to achieve something about the water should be recognized as a human right because without it, no life. The great industrial powers just see it as one more input for higher profits while the vast majority of living beings is of vital importance to her.
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