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Access to safe and clean water is a fundamental human right

By Miriam | Published: October 15, 2010

Tweet Today is Change.org’s Blog Action Day. They’ve picked the theme of Water for folks around the world to blog about and bring attention to the importance of access to clean and safe water as a human rights issue. Access to clean and safe water is something that we often take for granted living in [...]

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UN Recognizes Sanitation and Water as a Basic Right, US Abstains from Vote

By Lori | Published: August 10, 2010

TweetRecently the United Nations General Assembly decided to adopt a resolution recognizing water and sanitation as a basic human right. Even though resolutions about things like water and sanitation might not initially seem like explicitly feminist issues, I wrote on Akimbo that I consider this to be a huge win for women’s health, mostly because of [...]