Counting The Cost: Impact of Mining on Community Water Sources
Part of the AWJN’s # WATERSAVESLIVES Webinar Series
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Twelve Years after the Recognition of the Human Right to Water by the UN, Countries Need to Make More Efforts to Widen Access
Issued in Accra on 28th July 2022 Today marks a memorable day in the global fight against water privatization and struggle for water justice. On this day, twelve years ago in 2010 the United Nations General Assembly took the bold step and recognized the human rights to safe and clean water. Though the recognition was
Africa Water Justice Network campaigns against water privatisation threats in Nigerian, Kenya and South Africa
The Africa Water Justice Network(AWJN) has backed Civil Society Organisations and rights activists in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa and others resisting the continuous dispossession of people of their rights. The AWJN also supports the activists’ insistence on increased state-led tax-financing of basic social services nd calls on the African public,workers, media, lawmakers and students
Public Meeting in Abuja on a Trojan National Water Resources Bill
The Africa Ecumenical Water Network and the Africa Water Justice Network joined the 28th of July 2022 to convene a meeting in Abuja on a controversial Water Resources Bill currently before the Parliament of Nigeria. Civil society organizations in Nigeria and across the world, with the interest of rolling back the privatization of water agenda
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Improve Water Quality and Availability to Reduce Growing Reliance on Plastic Packaged Water, A Call to African Governments on World Environment Day
5th June 2022 The Africa Water Justice Network on the occasion of World Environment Day is calling on African Governments to take steps to address the increasing reliance on plastic packaged (sachet) water on the continent. The trend is spiraling up as a result of a perceived low quality of distributed water and lack of
Dakar Declaration – Formation of the Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN)
25th March 2022 At the end of two days of presentations and discussions during the Alternative World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal, which took place between the 22-25th of March 2022, we the undersigned declare the following: Who we are: We are a diverse group of organizations drawn from various parts of Africa, and other parts
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