Blue Planet Project

NGOs Urge Post-2015 Declaration Include Water, Sanitation as Basic Human Rights

By Thalif Deen
Virtually every major international conference concludes with a “programme of action” (PoA) – described in U.N. jargon as “an outcome document” – preceded by a political declaration where 193 member states religiously pledge to honour their commitments.

No Limits to Shale Gas Chemicals in Mexico

By Emilio Godoy
The new legal framework for Mexico’s oil industry has not placed controls on the use of harmful chemicals in the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, and environmentalists and experts fear their consumption will increase in an industry that is opening up to private capital.

Water Cut-off in U.S. City Violates Human Rights, Say Activists

By Thalif Deen
When the United Nations reaches out to resolve a water or sanitation crisis, it is largely across urban slums and remote villages in Asia, Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean.

U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Skips the Right to Water and Sanitation

By Thalif Deen
A U.N. working group mandated to formulate a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the post-2015 development agenda is being accused of bypassing water and sanitation as a basic human right: a right long affirmed in a General Assembly resolution adopted back in July 2010.


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