The Meeting is an activity of the WATERLAT Network co-organized by the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Mexico.
The WATERLAT Meeting supports the Blue October Campaign against corporate control of water.
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PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION
Participation in the meeting is free of charge, you only need to register.
Please, if you wish to attend the meeting click here to download and complete the Registration Form
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The meeting will feature two keynote speeches, four round tables, and workshops organized in parallel sessions. It will also include a Public Conversation on Water and Health in the afternoon of 25 October.
Keynote speeches:
24 October: “The struggle over water in Latin America and the Caribbean: why focusing on the socio-political dimension?”
José Esteban Castro, Newcastle University, Coordinator of the WATERLAT network
25 October: “Who made John Snow a hero? Water, health and injustice in the twentieth first century”
Enrique Cifuentes García, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Harvard
Round tables:
24 October: Round Table N° 1: Why worrying about water inequality, injustice and defencelessness?
25 October: Round Table N° 2: Is it possible to provide "scientific" proof of the link between “water” and “health/disease”? Does it matter? What are the implications for practical action?
26 October:
Round Table N° 3: How is x-disciplinarity put into practice?
Round Table N° 4: Knowledge and action: What (and how) to do to confront inequality, injustice, and defencelessness?
The Public Conversation on Water and Health (download a flyer in Spanish):
Tuesday 25 October 2011, 14:00-19:00, at the Auditorium Digna Ochoa, Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) (http://www.cdhdf.org.mx), Avenida Universidad 1449, Colonia Florida, Pueblo de Axotla (one block from Metro Viveros)
Objetives of the Public Conversation:
Promoting a public debate about
a) forms of inequality, injustice and defencelessness affecting the populations of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to water threats (diseases, disasters [droughts, floods, etc.], etc.);
b) strategies to confront and erradicate water inequality, injustice and defencelessness, including a discussion of the obstacles facing the implementation of such strategies
To provide a space for this debate with the participation of the scientific-academic community, public-sector representatives, civil society groups, and social sectors more generally, including peasant, indigenous and local-community organizations.
The Public Conversation will consist in short presentations of cases connected with the relationship between water and health/disease processes, followed by a plenary discussion. It will include cases from Argentina (provinces of Córdoba and Mendoza), Brazil (state of Pernambuco), Colombia,
Haiti, Mexico (cases from Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tlaxcala and Veracruz), and Central America.
Workshops (Monday 24 and Wednesday 26):
Workshop No 1. Megaprojects (mining, infrastructures, monocropping, etc.)
Workshop No 2. The right to water
Workshop No 3. Social inequalities: obstacles to the exercise of the human right to water (water and gender)
Citizen action around basic water services.
Workshop No 4. The urban water circle: comparative case studies
Workshop No 5. (Combined) Contentious and citizen actions around the distribution and access to water in urban and rural areas
Workshop No 6. Public services and regulation
Workshop No 7. The mercantilization of water
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Please, if you have any queries about the event e-mail us on WATERLAT.