Commission lacks ambition in replying to first European Citizens’ Initiative

Commission lacks ambition in replying to first European Citizens’ Initiative” (19 March 2014) The European Commission (EC) published a Communication today that gives its official response to the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) which called on the EC “to implement the human right to water and sanitation in European law.”  In the Communication, the European Commission does recall the importance of the human right to water and sanitation and…

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Privatisation as a distortion of Human Rights

Austerity measures have a more and more destructive impact on the application of our Human Rights. Governments are using privatisation of social services to mitigate the deficits on budgets. They forgot that privatisation ends in a distortion of Human Rights: the social services as water, as health, housing, … are now private services and have to listen to the terms of the private market. Accessibility and affordability, quality and quantity of…

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