5. LASC Events On Water
- 5.1 - Latin America Week
- 5.2 - Blue October/ Octubre Azul Campaign
5.1 Latin America Week (LAW) is a range of conferences, meetings, workshops and cultural events around Ireland, focusing on different issues each year. An annual programme of educational, cultural and campaigning events on issues relating to human, social and economic rights in Latin America.
LAW began as Central America Week in 1986 in order to increase the impact of many separate campaigns and events being organised by a variety of groups. It became Latin America Week after its tenth anniversary in 1996.
The overall aim of LAW is to concentrate the attention of the public on Latin America for one week, so as to highlight the justice issues at stake in the region and thus to facilitate campaigning and solidarity actions between Ireland and Latin America.
In LAW editions below the focus was on water privatisation:
5.2 Blue October/ Octubre Azul Campaign
On October 31, 2004, the people of Uruguay voted to amend their constitution to recognize this fundamental right. Since then BLUE OCTOBER became an international month of action for access to water celebrated by many communities and NGOs around the world. It challenges corporate control of water and aims a to protect water as a shared natural resource that should be available to all.
