A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
The Water Justice Manifesto
Article / 24th March 2023STWR joins the call of social movements at the 2023 UN Water Conference to insist that ‘water justice’ based on human rights is at the centre of policies to solve the global water crisis.
UN urges global cooperation as quarter of humanity lacks safe drinking water
News / 24th March 2023Amid a lack of global cooperation, the world is far off-track in achieving universal access to clean drinking water by 2030, according to a United Nations report released as officials marked World Water Day.
World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
News / 21st March 2023Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists report.
Most African governments (3 in 4) spend more on arms than feeding their people
Article / 16th March 2023The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.
The ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN high seas treaty
Article / 13th March 2023While campaigners hail a triumph of multilateralism, the new UN treaty has far from declared the high seas to be the ‘Common Heritage of Mankind’ and it has yet to agree any mechanisms for sharing ocean resources, explains Binoy Kampmark.