22 March 2022

Time: 16.00- 17.30 CET

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World Water Day is celebrated across the world on 22 March every year, led by the UN Water. This year during the WWD, the World Water Forum is being organized – the largest event on water. From March 21-26, Senegal will be hosting the 9th World Water Forum. This event takes place every three years, and this will be the first time it is held in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1997 inaugural meeting in Morocco.



WCC EWN and many other civil society organizations have criticized the World Water Forum for being an expensive mega-event and for its corporate-driven agenda.  This is why the global water justice movement - a growing network of water and environmental justice organizations, social movements, small scale farmers, trade unions, Faith Based Organisations and human rights advocates around the world – is coming together for the Alternative World Water Alternative Forum (AWWF/FAME - Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau), taking place parallel to the World Water Forum and also in Dakar. The organisers of the AWWF, including EWN, firmly believe that water is vital and sacred and not a commodity, but part of our global commons to be shared equitably and protected for future generations. 



This webinar will take a critical look at the WWF and promote AWWF/FAME or any other UN led global platform to address global water crisis in line with the UNFCCC mechanisms, which will uphold human right to water for all.

Speakers:

1. Prof. Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur, Human Right to Water and Sanitation

2. Ms Meera Karunananthan, Former Director, Blue Planet Project, Canada

3. Prof. Susan Smith, United Church of Christ, USA/ WCC-EWN

4. Dr Koni Benson, University of Western Cape, South Africa

5. Rev. Kolade Fadahunsi, Ecumenical Water Network-Africa

Moderator:  Dinesh Suna, coordinator of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network