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Addressee: Commission on Sustainable Development
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The Forum recommends that immediate steps be taken within the framework of the Commission on Sustainable Development to protect water from privatization and from bilateral and multilateral governmental agreements and other incursions that affect the integrity of waters and impoverish communities, particularly indigenous women. The Forum recommends that the Commission appoint a special rapporteur for the protection of water to gather testimony directly from indigenous communities of the world impacted by or targeted for water privatization, diversion, toxic contamination, pollution, commodification and other environmental injustices that damage natural and potable water supplies
Responses
The Government of Mexico states the following in its report to the Fifth session (E/C.19/2006/4/Add.3):
At the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (April 2005), Mexico took part in the consideration of wter, sanitation and human settlements issues. It promoted the adoption of policies aimed at conserving and protecting ecosystems through integrated water resources management; the promotion of sanitation and hygiene education; and the dissemination of measures and programs adopted by Mexico to address the sustainability issues affecting human settlements and to promote the recognition of equal rights and opportunities for men and women, as a precondition for sustainable development
Final Report of UNPFII Session 4 (2005)
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