In South Africa, local government is envisaged as a critical site of redistribution. This vision is laid out in the 1998 White Paper on Local Government, which imagined an entirely new kind of municipality, focused on the delivery of services to all South Africans to address historical injustices and reduce
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Lessons from Our Water Our Right Campaign
This interactive session will showcase how African water justice activists created a model centered around people-power, mobilizing across civil society, labour, and communities to challenge water Privatization and corporate enablers of infringement on the human right to water of peoples across Africa. Panelists at the session will each speak to
Continue readingThe Alternative World Water Forum – Forum Alternatif Mondial de L’Eau #FAME2022 Starts Today!
Every 3 years the World Water Council organises the World Water Forum. The name of the forum is not fair, as it is a forum for private water companies. The World Water Council is a private lobby formed by the main water multinational companies, such as Agbar, Suez and Veolia,
Continue readingExpanding civic space – state repression of water rights claiming
Wednesday 23 March @ 11:30-13:00 GMT Click here for the full program.
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