The Ecumenical Water Network The Ecumenical Water Network
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an initiative of Christian churches, organizations, and movements who have joined hands
- to protect and realize people's access to water around the world
- making a common Christian witness be heard in the debate on water issues
- promoting community-based initiatives and solutions to overcome the water crisis
- protecting water as a gift of God and advocating for water as a human right at the local, regional, and international level
10. June 09
Peru: WCC laments loss of life, condemns attempts to abrogate indigenous peoples' rights
The recent incidents of violence in Bagua, Peru are "but one instance of a series of government actions to abrogate the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon over land and resources", stated the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia in a 9 June letter to President Alan García Pérez.
4. June 09
Church leaders on World Environment Day
In a message for World Environment Day, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has stressed that "the care for and protection of Creation constitutes the responsibility of everyone on an individual and collective level."
25. March 09
Declaration of the World Water Forum falls behind international consensus, says EWN
Governments, civil society organizations and Christian agencies have expressed their disappointment that the ministerial declaration adopted at the World Water Forum in Istanbul does not include a reconfirmation of water as a human right.