Human Right to Water and Sanitation must be in the Sustainable Development Goals!

EAPN News

24/06/2015 – This week negotiations on the final text for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are taking place in the UN. The outcome should be the final agreement that world leaders will sign for in the Summit in September. The current document being discussed is the “Zero-Draft” in which we want to see an explicit mention of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in the final text, as stated and drafted by the NGO Mining Working Group.

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EAPN urges EU to tackle root causes of migration

EAPN Press releases

EAPN calls on the Heads of States to stop squabbling over migration and act now in line with our principles of solidarity and human rights

Brussels, 25 June 2015 – As Heads of States prepare their discussion for the meeting of the Council of the European Union next 25-26 June, thousands of migrants set off for the perilous journey to Europe risking their lives to find safety here. In the context of this humanitarian crisis which is unfolding every single day EAPN urges the EU and its Member States to live up to the principles on which the EU is built: human rights, solidarity and respect for democracy.