Water Rights Activists Blast Istanbul World Water Forum as “Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization”

Sunday was World Water Day and marked the close of a week-long gathering held in Istanbul, Turkey to discuss water policy at a time when over a billion people lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion people lack water for proper sanitation. Activists from the People’s Water Forum, an alternative formation representing the rural poor, the environment and organized labor, slammed the official event as a non-inclusive, corporate-driven fraud pushing for water privatization and called for a more open, democratic and transparent forum...

Speak out to ban unregulated imported swordfish

The Marine Mammal Protection Act bans fish imported from foreign countries whose fishing practices harm and kill more marine mammals than allowed by U.S. standards, but the law is not being enforced. Urge the National Marine Fisheries Service to ban imported swordfish until foreign fishing vessels employ the same measures to protect marine wildlife that are required of U.S. fishermen.

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