Referendum in Defence of Water as a Human Right in Colombia. Thursday Night Talk with LASC.

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday October 28, 2008 11:29 by events@lasc.ie - Latin America Solidarity Centre

“Without water there's no life” is the claim of Colombian people who want water sovereignty.

Colombia is one of the most privileged countries in the world with one of the highest number of water sources. Despite this fact there's a lot of people without drinking water or who are paying high prices for the vital liquid. In most of the cases this is due to several kind of privatisation such as private companies in charge of the water service, concession for the exploitation of rivers and lakes, contamination, hydroelectric plants, bottled water among others.

More than two millions of Colombian citizens have signed a petition for a Referendum to modified the National Constitution and to include water as a Human Right. This initiative will be discussed on the Congress in the next months.

Valeria Llano Arias, will speak about this Referendum and the human right to water. She was the press officer for this initiative in Antioquia, Colombia. Actually she is part of the EVS Program between LASC and ECOFONDO in Colombia.

Date: Thursday 30th October, 2008

Time: 7:00pm 8:30pm

Venue: Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre 27-31 Upper O'Conell Street, Dublin 1