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    UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities
    March 2011
    Water Justice

    TNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to reclaim public water.

    Public Community Partnerships in Peru and Uruguay
    March 2011
    Water Justice

    Citizen struggles for public water in Peru and Uruguay share many similarities and a common vision, with "public-community partnerships" bringing trade unions and water utility managers together on a shared platform.

    Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage
    March 2011
    Cecilia Olivet
     Paulina Novo

    Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

    The ‘miracle of San Martín’ and symptoms of ‘alternative development’ in Peru
    December 2010
    Hugo Cabieses

    The Peruvian government has presented the “Miracle of San Martin Model” as the path to follow to achieve drug supply reduction. However a closer look reveals that the model is not replicable, not ecologically sustainable, and won't remedy the ‘symptoms of alternative development’.

    Drug Policy Briefing No. 34
    The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru
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    October 2010
    Thomas Fritz

    The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses - which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction - for the sake of corporate profit.

    Blood at the Blockade: Peru's Indigenous Uprising
    June 2009
    TNI
     Gerardo Rénique

    On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil's Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the nearby towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica, and Utcubamba, shots...

    President Evo Morales to play football game during EU-LAC Summit
    May 2008
    TNI
    The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace

    In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in...

    Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership
    April 2008
    Philipp Terhorst
    The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.

     

    Interview with Luis Padron about the public-public partnership for improving water supply in Huancayo, Peru
    August 2007
    Water Justice

    The ground-breaking new Public-Public Partnership (PUP) between the
    Argentinean public water utility Aguas Bonaerenses S.A. (ABSA) and
    SEDAM, the provincial water utility of Huancayo (Peru) is an important
    example of the growing trend of not-for-profit cooperation between...

    The Drug’s Legal Nightmare
    February 2007
    TNI
     Ricardo Soberón
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