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The People's
Health Movement and allied
organizations and individuals
have agreed to work towards greater stewardship of water resources, and
to ask international institutions to do the same in the name of health,
human rights and global ecology.
With the People's
Statement on the Right to
Water we
have several
goals, among them the following: We ask the United Nations to pass a
binding Convention on the Right to Water on par with other
international agreements such as the Climate Convention and the
Convention on Biological Diversity. The statement also calls on the
people of the world to oppose the commodification of water and the
unregulated privatization of public water utilities as a violation of
our human rights, and calls on local and national governments to
recognize and defend people's right to sufficient, safe, affordable
water.
We hope you will agree with the intent and the
spirit of this statement, and sign on as an individual or organization,
to add your voice to the growing global movement in the defense of our
common right to safe, sufficient, and affordable water.
Click here to view
the People's Statement on the Right
to Water.
For more information on the Right to
Water campaign, please visit the website of the People's
Health
Movement-USA Circle:
www.phmovement.org/cms/en/USA or contact
phm@hesperian.org. Also see Food
and Water Watch for up to
date news and
information.
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