The Transformative Water Pact (TWP) is an innovative framework for water governance. It consolidates vital principles and an action framework to guide decision-making toward transformative change in water management. This is achieved through an alternative vision based on principles of environmental justice, equity, and water stewardship.
This webinar series aims to facilitate a dialogue among the TWP co-authors and their allies, focusing on global South countries' water governance and justice challenges. The goal is to highlight the impact of sharing valuable global experiences in advocacy, litigation, local solutions, campaigning, and research that have contributed to advancing the protection of the right to water worldwide.
In this first session, we will explored - through the lens of the Transformative Water Pact - various strategies of resistance and defense that local communities and civil society have developed to facilitate the conservation of protected areas and ensure access to justice and truth for the victims of the tragedy caused by the failure of an iron mine tailings dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.
Moderation: Jorge Lu Palencia, attorney with Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA).
Jorge Lu Palencia is Guatemalan and an attorney with AIDA's Ecosystems Program, working from Guatemala City. He is a graduate of Mariano Galvez University in Guatemala. He holds a Master's degree in Environmental Law from the same university. Jorge has significant experience in environmental matters in the public administration of his country and in international cooperation, and as a consultant for non-governmental and academic organizations. He has been a professor of law and currently teaches environmental forensic research at the Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala.
