Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:01 am125 Public Interest Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water Mandate
To: Council of Cdns ; Breitkreuz, G. MP ; Fed. Trade Min. Emerson ; Fed. Environ. Min. Baird ; Fed. Ind.Min.Prentice ; Prime Minister Harper
Cc: Polaris Institute ; AB Premier Stelmach ; AB Envir. Min. Renner ; BC Premier Campbell ; BC Envir. Min. Penner ; David Suzuki Foundation ; Dion, S. LIB ; Ducks Unlimited Canada ; Duceppe, G. Bloc ; ECOJustice ; Fogal, C. CAP ; Greenpeace Canada ; Julian, P. MP ; Layton, J. NDP ; May, E. GPC ; MB Premier Doer ; Nature Canada ; NL Premier Williams ; NL Health Min. Wiseman ; ON Premier McGuinty ; ON Envir.Min.Gerretsen ; Pembina Institute ; Parkland Institute ; Safe Drinking Water Foundation ; Sask Environmental Society ; Sierra Club - Can. ; Sierra Club - US ; SK Premier Wall ; SK Party Caucus ; SK Green, Finley ; SK NDP Caucus
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: WATER: 125 Public Interest Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water Mandate
http://www.examiner.com/p-134989~125_Pu ... _Withdraw_
Support_from_CEO_Water_Mandate.html
Mandate fosters corporate control, threatens global access to water
March 21, 2008
NEW YORK CITY—Leaders from more than 125 environmental, public health, water justice, human rights and corporate accountability organizations in 35 countries, are urging United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to withdraw his support from the CEO Water Mandate—a voluntary initiative being promoted as a way for corporations to make progress toward protecting water resources.
Corporations like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Suez and others that have joined the CEO Water Mandate have drawn criticism from around the world for practices that threaten people’s access to water. Organizations delivered the letter to coincide with the U.N.’s World Water Day, to call attention to the threats posed by corporate control of public water resources.
“Although the stated purpose of the CEO Water Mandate is to make progress toward protecting water resources,” says Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute in Canada, “we are concerned that it is really a thinly veiled public relations effort by for-profit corporations to gain greater control over water resources and services around the world. This is a prime example of ‘greenwashing’ and the U.N. should not be giving it credibility and support.”
“The United Nations should play a vital and active role toward protecting water as a human right and ecological trust,” says Rafael Colmenares of the Comité Nacional en Defensa del Agua y de la Vida in Colombia. “Instead, through the CEO Water Mandate, the U.N. is helping to advance corporate control of water.”
“Corporations like Coca-Cola, Suez and Nestlé are trying to turn water into a high-priced commodity, the oil of the 21st century,” says Kathryn Mulvey of Corporate Accountability International in the United States. “This presents a grave threat to people’s access to water. The United Nations needs to stand up for public, democratic control of a resource that is essential to life.”
For the full text of the letter and complete list of signers (also below) click here: www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/C ... eneral.pdf
==============================================
March 20, 2008
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General,
United Nations Headquarters
S-3800
New York, NY 10017
USA
Dear Mr. Secretary General,
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply involved in struggles for water justice taking place around the world. We appreciate the public warnings you have made recently about the growing crisis of global water shortages and how they are fueling, along with climate change, many of the conflicts going on around the world today. However, we do not share your enthusiastic support for the CEO Water Mandate, nor do we believe that a voluntary corporate-driven initiative is a viable solution to the mounting worldwide water crisis.
Under the United Nations’ Global Compact, the CEO Water Mandate is presented as a prime example of environmental stewardship. However, we are concerned that the real agenda of the CEO Water Mandate is to facilitate greater control over water sources and services by for-profit corporations. In our view, this is a prime example of ‘green-washing’ on the part of major companies and the United Nations should not be involved in legitimizing this process.
Furthermore, voluntary initiatives like those used by the UN Global Compact in its collaboration with corporations have been shown to be flawed. Not only are the principles narrowly conceived, but the companies typically fail to put them into practice and they are also allowed to ‘opt in’ or ‘opt out’ of the standards set.
Led by Coca Cola, which has a highly questionable track record when it comes to water takings and water pollution, the companies which have signed on to the CEO Water Mandate all have a vested interest in securing control over water sources and services in times of increasing water scarcity. Suez is the world’s largest privatizer of water services and Nestle is the world’s leading bottled water company. Pepsico and Groupe DANONE are also major players in the global bottled water industry. Other signers include food giants like Unilever, clothing manufacturers like Levi-Strauss, and chemical companies like Dow Chemical, all of whom are greatly dependent on water sources for the production of their products.
To make matters worse, we understand that these same corporations and their allies met on March 5th behind closed doors at the United Nations in New York to map out their plan of action for the CEO Water Mandate. Given the failure to safeguard against conflicts of interest and the lack of transparency of the process, we have no other recourse but to reject your appeal that civil society organizations join the CEO Water Mandate.
We maintain that water is the essence of life on this planet. As such, it is both a human right and an ecological trust. Local communities must be recognized as the true guardians of their local watersheds. Democratically elected governments must be responsible for ensuring community participation and control over water sources and services. The United Nations should be looking to local communities and representative governments, rather than for-profit corporations, to set the global policy agenda and lead the development of solutions to the world water crisis.
For these reasons, we urge you, Mr. General Secretary, to withdraw your support for the CEO Water Mandate because of its inherent conflicts of interest and lack of transparency.
Alternatively, we would be prepared to work with you in developing more transparent, accountable global institutions and mechanisms to ensure access to water for people and the environment.
For follow-up, please contact Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute, tclarke@polarisinstitute.org and Kathryn Mulvey, Corporate Accountability International, kmulvey@stopcorporateabuse.org.
Sincerely,
Issah Ali
Action for Integrated Development (AID), Ghana
Koos van Schie
Africa - Europe Faith & Justice Network, Belgium and Divine Word
Missionaries, Belgium
Claude Drui
Africa-Europe Foi et Justice Network, Pôle de Strasbourg, France
Prasanna Saligram
AID Bangalore / People's Health Movement, India
Ruth Caplan
Alliance For Democracy, USA
Renji George Joseph
Alliance for Holistic and Sustainable Development of Communities, India
Tara Lohan
Alternet, USA
Rabin Subedi
Arun 3 Concerned Group, Nepal
Maria Lucely Alzate
Asociación de Desarrollo Comunitario en El Quindío –ADECOQUIN,
Colombia
Claudia Saller
Austrian Network Social Responsibility (Netzwerk Soziale
Verantwortung), Austria
Zakir Kibria
Banglapraxis, Bangladesh
Krishan Bir Chaudhary
Bharatiya Krishak Samaj (Indian Farmers' Organisation), India
Anil Naidoo
Blue Planet Project, Canada
Ron Challis
Canadian Auto Workers Union, Local 1520
Hassan Yusseff
Canadian Labour Congress, Canada
Markus Schlagnitweit
Catholic Social Academy of Austria
Matthias Reichl
Center for Encounter and Active Non-Violence, Austria
Jackie Dugard
Centre For Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of The Witwatersrand,
South Africa
Patrick Bond
Centre for Civil Society Environmental Justice Project, University of
Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
D Roy Laifungbam
Centre for Organisation Research & Education, Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India's Eastern Himalayan Territories, India
Andrés Barreda Marín
Centro de Análisis Social, Información y Formación Popular – CASIFOP, México
Lorena Peralta Rojas
Centro de Derechos Humanos “Fray Francisco De Vitoria, O.P.", A.C.,
México
Marco Von Borstel
Coalición de Organizaciones Mexicanas por el Derecho al Agua, México
Arun Kumar Shrestha
Coasts, Wetlands and Tropical Ecosystem Research (CWATER), India
Jacqueline Lenoir
Congrégation des Soeurs de la Providence de Ruillé-sur-Loir, France
Hannah S. Wiegard
College of William and Mary Student Environmental Action Coalition, USA
Carmen E. Sosa
Comisión Nacional En Defensa Del Agua Y La Vida - Red Vida - Uruguay
Onlus E. Moliari
Comitato Italiano Per Il Contratto Mondiale Sull'acqua
Sandra Cangemi
Comitato Milanese Per L'acqua, Milano, Italia
Richard Priestman
Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, Kingston Chapter, Canada
Shah I Mobin Jinnah
Community Development Association, Bangladesh
Ramon Certeza
Confederation of Labor and Allied Social Services (CLASS) – TUCP,
The Philippines
Agnès Hédon
Congrégation Religieuses Catholiques, Notre Dame du Cénacle, France
Jocelyne Vander Beken
Congrégation Salésienne de la Visitation, Belgique
Gustavo Spedale
Coordinadora Córdoba En Defensa Del Agua Y La Vida (Ccodav), Argentina
Hernan Porras Gallego
Corporación de Estudios, Educación e Investigación Ambiental CEAM,
Colombia
Julio César Maya Gualdrón
Corporación para la Educación Integral y el Bienestar Ambiental - La Ceiba, Colombia
Kathryn Mulvey
Corporate Accountability International, USA
Olivier Hoedeman
Corporate Europe Observatory, The Netherlands
Mike Louw
COSATU Western Cape, South Africa
Maude Barlow
Council of Canadians
A. Ercelan
Creed Alliance Pakistan
Victoria Sant
Daughters of the Sacred Heart, Malta Antenna
Areli Sandoval Teran
Deca Equipo Pueblo, A.C. - Mexico
Jörg Felmeden
Departement of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (DESEE),
University of Kassel, Germany
Juan Camilo Mira
Ecofondo, Colombia
Tom Kucharz
Ecologistas en Acción, Spain.
Kayleigh Boyle
Emerson Peace and Social Justice, USA
Patricia Jones
Environmental Justice, USA
Riccardo Petrella
European Research Institute on Water Policy, Brussels
Luis Isarra Delgado
Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores del Agua Potable y Alcantarillado
del Peru -FENTAP
Oscar Olivera
Federation of Factory Workers from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Mary Ann Manahan
Focus On The Global South, India, Philippines and Thailand
Wenonah Hauter
Food & Water Watch, USA
Marie Louise Inghels
Franciscaines Missionaires de Marie, Belgium
Ricardo Ramirez Aguirre
Frente Nacional por la Salud de los Pueblos del Ecuador
Boris Ríos Brito
Fundación Abril, Bolivia
Raúl Mauricio Rodríguez G.
Fundación Centro de Investigaciones del Pacífico (Cenipacífico), Colombia
David A Mcdonald
Global Development Studies, Queen's University
Kirsten Moller
Global Exchange, USA
Sabine Hofmann
Globalisierungskritische Gruppe Welzheim, Germany
Sandra Finley
Green Party of Saskatchewan, Canada
Rao Javaid Iqbal
Helping Hand For Relief & Development, USA
Gopal Siwakoti 'Chintan'
Himalayan and Peninsular Hydro-Ecological Network (HYPHEN), Nepal
Maria Theresa Nera-Lauron
Ibon Foundation Inc, The Philippines
Karen Lang
IDEC - Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor, Brazil
Wilfred Dcosta
Indian Social Action Forum (Insaf), Indida
Carol Bergin
Initiative Colibri, Germany
June Deborah Meek
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, USA
Michael Sozinyu
International Socialist Organisation, Zimbabwe
Mesbahuddin Ahmed
Jatiyo Sramik Jote, Bangladesh
Christian Roberti
Justice-Paix-Intégrité de la Création, Congrégation du Saint Esprit, Belgium
Sumesh Mangalassery
KABANI – The Other Direction, India
Erick Otieno Owuor
Kamukunji Aralegal Network, Kenya
Ayodele Akele
Labour, Health And Human Rights Development Centre, Lhahrdev, Nigeria
Vita De Waal
Liaison Planetary Association For Clean Energy, Canada
Ajay Kumar Khare
Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha/People’s Health Movement chapter, India
Manuel Peña Celis
MASTRANTO del Municipio de Paz de Ariporo, Departamento de Casanare, Colombia
Terry Swier
Michigan Citizens For Water Conservation
Zeki Ergas
Millennium Solidarity Geneva Group, Switzerland
André Claessens
Missionaries of the S. Heart, Borgerhout, Belgium
Angela Wiley
Morgantown High School Green Initiative, USA
Meghan Dougherty
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, USA
Ratan Bhandari
National Concerns Society, Nepal
Sandra Willard
New Democratic Party, Lanark Frontenac Lennox And Addington Riding Association, Canada
Katherine Hoyt
Nicaragua Network
Gustavo Castro Soto
Otros Mundos, AC, Chiapas, México
Hans G. Kratz
Parksville-Qualicum Kairos, Canada
Pete Williams
Peace and Justice Organization of St. Olaf College, USA
Rapudo Hawi
Pedagogue Milestones, Kenya
Liz Welsh
Peoples’ Health Movement, South Africa
V. Soundara Rajan
Pesat Ngo, India
R. Ajayan
Plachimada Solidarity Committee, India
Tony Clarke
Polaris Institute, Canada
Elsa Nivia
Rapalmira, Rap-Al, Colombia
Erika Arteaga
Red de Accion, Taller Observatorio de Politicas de Salud, Ecuador
María Selva Ortiz
REDES-Amigos De La Tierra, Uruguay
Annie Girard
Réseau Foi et Justice Afrique-Europe, Antenne de France
Kathleen Ruff
Rightoncanada
Art Cohen
Saniplan, USA
Christine Elwell
Sierra Club of Canada
Larry Williams
Sierra Club, USA
Anne Rutter
Sisters of St Joseph Of Annecy, England
Winifred Doherty
Sisters of the Good Shepherd International Justice and Peace Office, USA
Manu Alphonse
Social Watch - TAMILNADU", India
Muhammad Arshad Khan
Society for Social Justice & Development Pasrur (Sialkot) Pakistan.
Louisa Barton-Duguay
Sos Eau Water Sankwan Inc, Canada
Jeff Rudin
South African Municipal Workers' Union
Lucian Borg
St. Augustine’s Priory, La Valletta, Malta.
Elaine Hughes
Stop The Hogs Coalition
Christina Copeland
Sustainability Hub at Cornell University, USA
Gallege Punyawardana Alvis
Swarna Hansa Foundation, Sri Lanka
Álvaro J. de Regil
The Jus Semper Global Alliance, USA
Joy Kennedy
The United Church Of Canada
Satoko Kishimoto
Transnational Institute (Tni), The Netherlands
Ahmed Nawaz Khan
Umeedenao Citizen Community Board, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Asim Nawaz Khan
Umeed-E-Nao Citizen Community Board, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Rob Keithan
Unitarian Universalist Association Of Congregations
Sachin Kumar Jain
Vikas Samvad, Bhopal, India
Mariama Ahmeda Mansaray
Voices of the Voiceless, Ghana
Ram Chandra Chataut
Water and Energy Users' Federation-Nepal (WAFED)
Trude Malthe Thomassen
Water Movement , Norway
Gaye Yilmaz
Waterpolitics, Turkey
Martha Spiess
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Maine chapter, USA
Laura Roskos
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section
Benedict Southworth
World Development Movement, UK
Peter Fuchs
World Economy, Ecology & Development (WEED), Berlin,Germany
Mónica Vargas
Xarxa de L'observatori del Deute en la Globalització, Catalonia
Muyunda Ililonga
Zambia Consumers Association, Zambia
Adonio Mutero
Zimbabwe Labour Centre, Zimbabwe
Ludo Vercammen
Zusters van Liefde van Jesus en Marie, Leuven, The Netherlands
To: Council of Cdns ; Breitkreuz, G. MP ; Fed. Trade Min. Emerson ; Fed. Environ. Min. Baird ; Fed. Ind.Min.Prentice ; Prime Minister Harper
Cc: Polaris Institute ; AB Premier Stelmach ; AB Envir. Min. Renner ; BC Premier Campbell ; BC Envir. Min. Penner ; David Suzuki Foundation ; Dion, S. LIB ; Ducks Unlimited Canada ; Duceppe, G. Bloc ; ECOJustice ; Fogal, C. CAP ; Greenpeace Canada ; Julian, P. MP ; Layton, J. NDP ; May, E. GPC ; MB Premier Doer ; Nature Canada ; NL Premier Williams ; NL Health Min. Wiseman ; ON Premier McGuinty ; ON Envir.Min.Gerretsen ; Pembina Institute ; Parkland Institute ; Safe Drinking Water Foundation ; Sask Environmental Society ; Sierra Club - Can. ; Sierra Club - US ; SK Premier Wall ; SK Party Caucus ; SK Green, Finley ; SK NDP Caucus
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Subject: WATER: 125 Public Interest Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water Mandate
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Mandate fosters corporate control, threatens global access to water
March 21, 2008
NEW YORK CITY—Leaders from more than 125 environmental, public health, water justice, human rights and corporate accountability organizations in 35 countries, are urging United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to withdraw his support from the CEO Water Mandate—a voluntary initiative being promoted as a way for corporations to make progress toward protecting water resources.
Corporations like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Suez and others that have joined the CEO Water Mandate have drawn criticism from around the world for practices that threaten people’s access to water. Organizations delivered the letter to coincide with the U.N.’s World Water Day, to call attention to the threats posed by corporate control of public water resources.
“Although the stated purpose of the CEO Water Mandate is to make progress toward protecting water resources,” says Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute in Canada, “we are concerned that it is really a thinly veiled public relations effort by for-profit corporations to gain greater control over water resources and services around the world. This is a prime example of ‘greenwashing’ and the U.N. should not be giving it credibility and support.”
“The United Nations should play a vital and active role toward protecting water as a human right and ecological trust,” says Rafael Colmenares of the Comité Nacional en Defensa del Agua y de la Vida in Colombia. “Instead, through the CEO Water Mandate, the U.N. is helping to advance corporate control of water.”
“Corporations like Coca-Cola, Suez and Nestlé are trying to turn water into a high-priced commodity, the oil of the 21st century,” says Kathryn Mulvey of Corporate Accountability International in the United States. “This presents a grave threat to people’s access to water. The United Nations needs to stand up for public, democratic control of a resource that is essential to life.”
For the full text of the letter and complete list of signers (also below) click here: www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/C ... eneral.pdf
==============================================
March 20, 2008
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General,
United Nations Headquarters
S-3800
New York, NY 10017
USA
Dear Mr. Secretary General,
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply involved in struggles for water justice taking place around the world. We appreciate the public warnings you have made recently about the growing crisis of global water shortages and how they are fueling, along with climate change, many of the conflicts going on around the world today. However, we do not share your enthusiastic support for the CEO Water Mandate, nor do we believe that a voluntary corporate-driven initiative is a viable solution to the mounting worldwide water crisis.
Under the United Nations’ Global Compact, the CEO Water Mandate is presented as a prime example of environmental stewardship. However, we are concerned that the real agenda of the CEO Water Mandate is to facilitate greater control over water sources and services by for-profit corporations. In our view, this is a prime example of ‘green-washing’ on the part of major companies and the United Nations should not be involved in legitimizing this process.
Furthermore, voluntary initiatives like those used by the UN Global Compact in its collaboration with corporations have been shown to be flawed. Not only are the principles narrowly conceived, but the companies typically fail to put them into practice and they are also allowed to ‘opt in’ or ‘opt out’ of the standards set.
Led by Coca Cola, which has a highly questionable track record when it comes to water takings and water pollution, the companies which have signed on to the CEO Water Mandate all have a vested interest in securing control over water sources and services in times of increasing water scarcity. Suez is the world’s largest privatizer of water services and Nestle is the world’s leading bottled water company. Pepsico and Groupe DANONE are also major players in the global bottled water industry. Other signers include food giants like Unilever, clothing manufacturers like Levi-Strauss, and chemical companies like Dow Chemical, all of whom are greatly dependent on water sources for the production of their products.
To make matters worse, we understand that these same corporations and their allies met on March 5th behind closed doors at the United Nations in New York to map out their plan of action for the CEO Water Mandate. Given the failure to safeguard against conflicts of interest and the lack of transparency of the process, we have no other recourse but to reject your appeal that civil society organizations join the CEO Water Mandate.
We maintain that water is the essence of life on this planet. As such, it is both a human right and an ecological trust. Local communities must be recognized as the true guardians of their local watersheds. Democratically elected governments must be responsible for ensuring community participation and control over water sources and services. The United Nations should be looking to local communities and representative governments, rather than for-profit corporations, to set the global policy agenda and lead the development of solutions to the world water crisis.
For these reasons, we urge you, Mr. General Secretary, to withdraw your support for the CEO Water Mandate because of its inherent conflicts of interest and lack of transparency.
Alternatively, we would be prepared to work with you in developing more transparent, accountable global institutions and mechanisms to ensure access to water for people and the environment.
For follow-up, please contact Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute, tclarke@polarisinstitute.org and Kathryn Mulvey, Corporate Accountability International, kmulvey@stopcorporateabuse.org.
Sincerely,
Issah Ali
Action for Integrated Development (AID), Ghana
Koos van Schie
Africa - Europe Faith & Justice Network, Belgium and Divine Word
Missionaries, Belgium
Claude Drui
Africa-Europe Foi et Justice Network, Pôle de Strasbourg, France
Prasanna Saligram
AID Bangalore / People's Health Movement, India
Ruth Caplan
Alliance For Democracy, USA
Renji George Joseph
Alliance for Holistic and Sustainable Development of Communities, India
Tara Lohan
Alternet, USA
Rabin Subedi
Arun 3 Concerned Group, Nepal
Maria Lucely Alzate
Asociación de Desarrollo Comunitario en El Quindío –ADECOQUIN,
Colombia
Claudia Saller
Austrian Network Social Responsibility (Netzwerk Soziale
Verantwortung), Austria
Zakir Kibria
Banglapraxis, Bangladesh
Krishan Bir Chaudhary
Bharatiya Krishak Samaj (Indian Farmers' Organisation), India
Anil Naidoo
Blue Planet Project, Canada
Ron Challis
Canadian Auto Workers Union, Local 1520
Hassan Yusseff
Canadian Labour Congress, Canada
Markus Schlagnitweit
Catholic Social Academy of Austria
Matthias Reichl
Center for Encounter and Active Non-Violence, Austria
Jackie Dugard
Centre For Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of The Witwatersrand,
South Africa
Patrick Bond
Centre for Civil Society Environmental Justice Project, University of
Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
D Roy Laifungbam
Centre for Organisation Research & Education, Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India's Eastern Himalayan Territories, India
Andrés Barreda Marín
Centro de Análisis Social, Información y Formación Popular – CASIFOP, México
Lorena Peralta Rojas
Centro de Derechos Humanos “Fray Francisco De Vitoria, O.P.", A.C.,
México
Marco Von Borstel
Coalición de Organizaciones Mexicanas por el Derecho al Agua, México
Arun Kumar Shrestha
Coasts, Wetlands and Tropical Ecosystem Research (CWATER), India
Jacqueline Lenoir
Congrégation des Soeurs de la Providence de Ruillé-sur-Loir, France
Hannah S. Wiegard
College of William and Mary Student Environmental Action Coalition, USA
Carmen E. Sosa
Comisión Nacional En Defensa Del Agua Y La Vida - Red Vida - Uruguay
Onlus E. Moliari
Comitato Italiano Per Il Contratto Mondiale Sull'acqua
Sandra Cangemi
Comitato Milanese Per L'acqua, Milano, Italia
Richard Priestman
Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, Kingston Chapter, Canada
Shah I Mobin Jinnah
Community Development Association, Bangladesh
Ramon Certeza
Confederation of Labor and Allied Social Services (CLASS) – TUCP,
The Philippines
Agnès Hédon
Congrégation Religieuses Catholiques, Notre Dame du Cénacle, France
Jocelyne Vander Beken
Congrégation Salésienne de la Visitation, Belgique
Gustavo Spedale
Coordinadora Córdoba En Defensa Del Agua Y La Vida (Ccodav), Argentina
Hernan Porras Gallego
Corporación de Estudios, Educación e Investigación Ambiental CEAM,
Colombia
Julio César Maya Gualdrón
Corporación para la Educación Integral y el Bienestar Ambiental - La Ceiba, Colombia
Kathryn Mulvey
Corporate Accountability International, USA
Olivier Hoedeman
Corporate Europe Observatory, The Netherlands
Mike Louw
COSATU Western Cape, South Africa
Maude Barlow
Council of Canadians
A. Ercelan
Creed Alliance Pakistan
Victoria Sant
Daughters of the Sacred Heart, Malta Antenna
Areli Sandoval Teran
Deca Equipo Pueblo, A.C. - Mexico
Jörg Felmeden
Departement of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (DESEE),
University of Kassel, Germany
Juan Camilo Mira
Ecofondo, Colombia
Tom Kucharz
Ecologistas en Acción, Spain.
Kayleigh Boyle
Emerson Peace and Social Justice, USA
Patricia Jones
Environmental Justice, USA
Riccardo Petrella
European Research Institute on Water Policy, Brussels
Luis Isarra Delgado
Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores del Agua Potable y Alcantarillado
del Peru -FENTAP
Oscar Olivera
Federation of Factory Workers from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Mary Ann Manahan
Focus On The Global South, India, Philippines and Thailand
Wenonah Hauter
Food & Water Watch, USA
Marie Louise Inghels
Franciscaines Missionaires de Marie, Belgium
Ricardo Ramirez Aguirre
Frente Nacional por la Salud de los Pueblos del Ecuador
Boris Ríos Brito
Fundación Abril, Bolivia
Raúl Mauricio Rodríguez G.
Fundación Centro de Investigaciones del Pacífico (Cenipacífico), Colombia
David A Mcdonald
Global Development Studies, Queen's University
Kirsten Moller
Global Exchange, USA
Sabine Hofmann
Globalisierungskritische Gruppe Welzheim, Germany
Sandra Finley
Green Party of Saskatchewan, Canada
Rao Javaid Iqbal
Helping Hand For Relief & Development, USA
Gopal Siwakoti 'Chintan'
Himalayan and Peninsular Hydro-Ecological Network (HYPHEN), Nepal
Maria Theresa Nera-Lauron
Ibon Foundation Inc, The Philippines
Karen Lang
IDEC - Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor, Brazil
Wilfred Dcosta
Indian Social Action Forum (Insaf), Indida
Carol Bergin
Initiative Colibri, Germany
June Deborah Meek
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, USA
Michael Sozinyu
International Socialist Organisation, Zimbabwe
Mesbahuddin Ahmed
Jatiyo Sramik Jote, Bangladesh
Christian Roberti
Justice-Paix-Intégrité de la Création, Congrégation du Saint Esprit, Belgium
Sumesh Mangalassery
KABANI – The Other Direction, India
Erick Otieno Owuor
Kamukunji Aralegal Network, Kenya
Ayodele Akele
Labour, Health And Human Rights Development Centre, Lhahrdev, Nigeria
Vita De Waal
Liaison Planetary Association For Clean Energy, Canada
Ajay Kumar Khare
Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha/People’s Health Movement chapter, India
Manuel Peña Celis
MASTRANTO del Municipio de Paz de Ariporo, Departamento de Casanare, Colombia
Terry Swier
Michigan Citizens For Water Conservation
Zeki Ergas
Millennium Solidarity Geneva Group, Switzerland
André Claessens
Missionaries of the S. Heart, Borgerhout, Belgium
Angela Wiley
Morgantown High School Green Initiative, USA
Meghan Dougherty
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, USA
Ratan Bhandari
National Concerns Society, Nepal
Sandra Willard
New Democratic Party, Lanark Frontenac Lennox And Addington Riding Association, Canada
Katherine Hoyt
Nicaragua Network
Gustavo Castro Soto
Otros Mundos, AC, Chiapas, México
Hans G. Kratz
Parksville-Qualicum Kairos, Canada
Pete Williams
Peace and Justice Organization of St. Olaf College, USA
Rapudo Hawi
Pedagogue Milestones, Kenya
Liz Welsh
Peoples’ Health Movement, South Africa
V. Soundara Rajan
Pesat Ngo, India
R. Ajayan
Plachimada Solidarity Committee, India
Tony Clarke
Polaris Institute, Canada
Elsa Nivia
Rapalmira, Rap-Al, Colombia
Erika Arteaga
Red de Accion, Taller Observatorio de Politicas de Salud, Ecuador
María Selva Ortiz
REDES-Amigos De La Tierra, Uruguay
Annie Girard
Réseau Foi et Justice Afrique-Europe, Antenne de France
Kathleen Ruff
Rightoncanada
Art Cohen
Saniplan, USA
Christine Elwell
Sierra Club of Canada
Larry Williams
Sierra Club, USA
Anne Rutter
Sisters of St Joseph Of Annecy, England
Winifred Doherty
Sisters of the Good Shepherd International Justice and Peace Office, USA
Manu Alphonse
Social Watch - TAMILNADU", India
Muhammad Arshad Khan
Society for Social Justice & Development Pasrur (Sialkot) Pakistan.
Louisa Barton-Duguay
Sos Eau Water Sankwan Inc, Canada
Jeff Rudin
South African Municipal Workers' Union
Lucian Borg
St. Augustine’s Priory, La Valletta, Malta.
Elaine Hughes
Stop The Hogs Coalition
Christina Copeland
Sustainability Hub at Cornell University, USA
Gallege Punyawardana Alvis
Swarna Hansa Foundation, Sri Lanka
Álvaro J. de Regil
The Jus Semper Global Alliance, USA
Joy Kennedy
The United Church Of Canada
Satoko Kishimoto
Transnational Institute (Tni), The Netherlands
Ahmed Nawaz Khan
Umeedenao Citizen Community Board, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Asim Nawaz Khan
Umeed-E-Nao Citizen Community Board, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Rob Keithan
Unitarian Universalist Association Of Congregations
Sachin Kumar Jain
Vikas Samvad, Bhopal, India
Mariama Ahmeda Mansaray
Voices of the Voiceless, Ghana
Ram Chandra Chataut
Water and Energy Users' Federation-Nepal (WAFED)
Trude Malthe Thomassen
Water Movement , Norway
Gaye Yilmaz
Waterpolitics, Turkey
Martha Spiess
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Maine chapter, USA
Laura Roskos
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section
Benedict Southworth
World Development Movement, UK
Peter Fuchs
World Economy, Ecology & Development (WEED), Berlin,Germany
Mónica Vargas
Xarxa de L'observatori del Deute en la Globalització, Catalonia
Muyunda Ililonga
Zambia Consumers Association, Zambia
Adonio Mutero
Zimbabwe Labour Centre, Zimbabwe
Ludo Vercammen
Zusters van Liefde van Jesus en Marie, Leuven, The Netherlands