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FAME 2005 with Ricardo Petrella.


The 2nd World Water Alternative Forum will be held on the 18th and 19th March 2005 in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
, Switzerland. The Forum's key objective is to further develop and promote institutions and public policy that will finally provide access to drinking water for all human beings and have water management done in a democratic, united and sustainable manner. Ricardo Petrella is one of the founders of this Forum.

Professeur a l'Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgique) et a l'Academie d'architecture de l'Universite suisse-italienne, Riccardo Petrella se definit lui-meme comme <<militant de l'eau>>. Il est membre fondateur et secretaire general du Comite international pour le Contrat mondial Mondial can refer to:
  • Mondial (amusement ride manufacturer), a Dutch manufacturer of amusement rides.
  • Mondial (motorcyle manufacturer), an Italian motorcycle manufacturer.
 de l'eau. Et, a ce titre titre

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, l'un des principaux initiateurs du Forum alternatif mondial de l'eau.

Riccardo Petrella, un Forum alternatif mondial de l'eau, pour quoi faire?

Il ne s'agit plus de discuter abstraitement des problemes de l'eau et de protester contre ceux qui en sont la cause. Il faut mettre en oeuvre des solutions concretes. C'est cela la programmation politique: faire en sorte que les choses changent et pas seulement continuer a protester parce que les choses ne changent pas. Je vous donne deux exemples de ce que nous avons deja fait:

Le 10 decembre 2003 a Rome, Nous etions 33 <<molecules>> a declarer que l'acces a l'eau est un droit [French, Justice, right, law.] A term denoting the abstract concept of law or a right.

Droit is as variable a phrase as the English right or the Latin jus. It signifies the entire body of law or a right in terms of a duty or obligation.
 humain. Nous nous sommes donne deux ans pour que 5'000 communes du monde entier, 1'000 parlementaires, 500 grandes ONG ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale
ONG Organización No Gubernamental
ONG Organização Não-Governamental (Brazil)
ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa (Italian) 
 et 100 centrales syndicales nationales adherent a cette declaration de Rome. Notre idee est d'obtenir que les collectivites locales constitutionnalisent le droit universel a l'eau dans leurs statuts. Si 5'000 communes de par le monde font de meme, ce sera une action politique forte qui fournira une base juridique fondamentale a cette reconnaissance du droit a l'eau.

Grace a nos pressions, le Parlement Europeen a Strasbourg a aussi vote le 10 mars 2004 deux amendements qui rejettent toute ouverture a la libre concurrence dans le domaine de l'eau.

Qu'attendre du Forum de Geneve en 2005?

D'ici a mars 2005, des petits groupes de travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
     2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
     3.
 vont preparer des documents de synthese. Tous ceux qui s'interessent a ces thematiques pourront egalement echanger leurs experiences et leurs opinions via internet.

Un premier groupe <<Finances>> a deja ete constitue: comment financer l'eau et les services publics de l'eau a l'echelon mondial et local, quel nouveau systeme financier peut-on inventer, quelle nouvelle fiscalite, quelles nouvelles formes (language, music) Formes - An object-oriented language for music composition and synthesis, written in VLISP.

["Formes: Composition and Scheduling of Processes", X. Rodet & P. Cointe, Computer Music J 8(3):32-50 (Fall 1984)].
 cooperatives, de mutuelles, etc.?

On procedera a la meme demarche dé·marche  
n.
1. A course of action; a maneuver.

2. A diplomatic representation or protest.

3. A statement or protest addressed by citizens to public authorities.
 dans les autres themes. La Suisse parait s'interesser plus particulierement a la question d'un texte fondamental contraignant en matiere d'acces a l'eau sous la forme forme (form) pl. formes   [Fr.] form.

forme fruste  (froost) pl. formes frustes   an atypical, especially a mild or incomplete, form, as of a disease.
 d'une convention internationale. On peut aussi imaginer un contrat mondial.

Nous partons d'une vision tres optimiste: si on lutte pour l'eau, c'est-a-dire pour le droit a la vie et pour un bien commun de l'humanite, tot ou tard on gagnera.

Information ressemblee par Francoise Mees, WILPF WILPF Women's International League for Peace and Freedom  International Secretariat, Geneva.

www.unesco.org/water

www.wateryear2003.org

www.genderandwateralliance.org

www.fame2005.org

RELATED ARTICLE: Water for Life

At its 58th session, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a draft resolution, (A/RES/58/217), proclaiming 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action--Water for Life.

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Its goal is "a greater focus on water-related issues, with emphasis on women as managers of water".

The official start of the Water for Life decade will be on World Water Day, 22 March 2005.

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