Water is a Human Right

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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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