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CIEL participated in the
4th World Water Forum
(WW4F) and other events, held in Mexico City on March 16-22, 2006. CIEL
promoted the book Fresh
Water and International Economic Law (Oxford University Press, August
2005), edited by a CIEL attorney. CIEL also presented its Issue Brief
entitled, The Ebb and Flow of the Water Privatization Debate.
CIEL supported its partners to attend the Forum. At the International
Campaign to Stop Suez Abuses before the Latin American Water Tribunal
Ad-hoc Commission,
Jimena Garrote from the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) in
Argentina discussed the petition for transparency and participation as
amicus curiae that CIEL, CELS and other NGOs had submitted to an investment
tribunal administered by the World Bank International Centre for Settlement
of Investment Disputes (ICSID), hearing a case brought by Suez' subsidiary,
Aguas Argentinas S.A., against Argentina. Alonso Barros from the Instituto
de Investigaciones Arqueológicas introduced his research article,
entitled: The
free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples as a prerequisite
for groundwater exploration in their ancestral lands: A human rights approach
to the water of the Likanantai people (Atacama Desert, Chile).
For more information, please contact Sofia
Plagakis.
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