Press Statement

October 13,2025

Public Water for Climate Resilience

Today, civil society organisations, community networks, youth groups, trade unions, and grassroots movements across Africa converge to launch the fifth Africa Week of Action Against Water Privatisation, a continent-wide mobilisation under the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC). From 13–18 October 2025, under the theme Public Water for Climate…
May 23,2024

OWORAC Condemns Attacks on Water Justice  Advocates in Bali

The Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition strongly condemns the recent attacks on water justice advocates in Bali, Indonesia. We stand in solidarity with the People’s Water Forum (PWF) and call for immediate action to safeguard civil society’s right to convene without fear of harassment or intimidation. According to reports…
October 09,2023

Our Water, Our Right: African communities, workers, and civil society join hands across continent urging regional leaders to stave off water privatisation threats

This week, civil society and labour activists are urging African leaders to be the bulwark against a rising tide of threats to communities’ access to water, with particular attention to the insidious threats that water privatisation and corporate capture pose to the human right to water. The Our Water, Our…

We work to empower communities to push back against the privatization and commodification of their water services, amplify their voices, and demand transparency and accountability from both governments and international financial institutions.

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