Thursday, 4 August 2011

Water is a right and a commodity, says U.N. chief (OneWorld.net)

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 3 (IPS) - As the 193-member General Assembly commemorates the first anniversary of its landmark resolution pronouncing water and sanitation to be a basic human right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon triggered a political controversy last week when he implicitly declared that even human rights have a market price.


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