Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”

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Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”

Between May 2012 and September 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ successfully collected close to 1.9 million signatures across the European Union (EU), forcing the Commission into an official position on the role of water in the EU and wider world....

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Main Author:	Bieler, Andreas
Format:	Article
Published:	2017
Subjects:	EPSU European Citizens’ Initiative neo-liberal restructuring resistance trade union – social movement alliance water as a human right
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44378/

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