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Workshop on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration in Latin America - September 9 , 9:00 am San José, Costa Rica

09/09/2014

Today September 9, at 9:00 am (Costa Rica time) a training workshop and good practices on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration organized by ECLAC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica will be held. Vanessa Dubois from FANCA will be participating in the panel on access to information at 11:30 am; and Jorge Mora from ARA will be talking in the citizen participation panel at 2:30 pm.

You can watch the workshop online:

https://www.ustream.tv/channel/principio-10-de-la-declaraci%C3%B3n-de-r%C3%ADo-sobre-el-medio-ambiente-y-el-desarrollo-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina-y-el-caribe

Central America, Global, Rights to water & sanitation

Third School Reciprocal Agreements for Water (ARA) as a means to preserve environmental functions of forests and increase the income of the people - FANAS

08/09/2014

From 11 to 16 August the 3rd meeting related to Reciprocal Agreements for Water (ARA), the program is executed in Bolivia and within its 30 municipalities, having a growing demand to drive ARA was performed for multiple environmental functions inside and outside the country. thought that more cost-effective model for expanding ARA and scale of our operations is not do it ourselves, but is to teach other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), indigenous organizations, municipalities and governments on how to implement the model in their territories.

More information clic here

Global, Rights to water & sanitation, South America

Law for Integrated Water Resource Management moves forward - FANCA

05/09/2014

San José, Costa Rica. Following the approval in first debate of the Law for Integrated Water Resource Management, onMarch 31st, the Constitutional Court moved to constitutional study.

Central America, Governance, transparency and monitoring, Mexico, Rights to water & sanitation

FANMex participates in the World Water Week - Stockholm, Sweden

04/09/2014

From August 31 to September 5, Stockholm Sweden will host the World Water Week and FANMex will be there.

Global, Mexico, Rights to water & sanitation

Honduran communities put up resistance- FANCA

11/08/2014

Honduran social organizations complain that their country is now a mixture of two realities: The government speaks of Honduras without violence that meets national and international standards, human rights are respected and there are only some isolated protests that do not reflect the real popular feeling, and that activists are involved in drug smuggling or trying to destabilize the country. Most of pro-government media outlets support that version.

Central America, Global, Governance, transparency and monitoring, Rights to water & sanitation