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Ok, do you want to introduce yourself first?
I am Danielle Morley, the executive secretary of Freshwater Action Network.
Oh hello Danielle, how was yesterday the first day of the event?
Do you feel that your expectations have been met, so far?
Yea, I took part in a panel, the
Global Panel on Human Rights to Water, Food and Energy Security,
and that went really well.
There was lots of interest in the panel, we had some really interesting questions.
Challenges on how is the rights based approach is going to make a difference to people’s security,
but on the whole there was a consensus that we have these international obligations already,
enshrined in law
and it’s going to become more and more useful and important to make sure that people are able to act
to enforce their rights and that community empowerment is an important part of that dimension.
And what do you expect for the rest of the event?
I expect for the rest of the event, that the messages that came out of that panel on human rights,
continue. We continue to hear it throughout the conference and we have been hearing
from different speakers about the importance about creating a more just society, a more equitable society.
And so I’m hoping that message continues through today.
I’m expecting today we're going to hear quite a bit about the land grabs and the water grabs and the problems that that’s havin
And I’m expecting as an outcome from this conference that we have some
well thought through direct messages that we all believe in and that we can use in our advocacy and our work, leading up to Rio+20.
Do you feel that us, as civil society, do we have pretty good chances that our messages are going to be incorporated in the Rio+20 messages?
I can’t really speak about Rio+20, I haven’t really been very involved in that to date.
I think it’s clear that there’s not as much momentum behind Rio+20 as we were seeing 6-months before the Johannesburg summit in 2002.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development.
There was a lot of energy around that.
I don’t think we are seeing the same level of commitment and energy from civil society for this process
because a lot of people have lost faith in the International governance,
the way in which we are, as a global community, managing and monitoring our commitments to sustainable development, is pretty poor.
and I think people have lost a bit of faith in the system and as a result of that we'er seeing just less degrees of engagement from civil society.
But do you feel there is a good attitude from the organizers of the Bonn conference?
I think there is a good attitude from the organizers for the Bonn conference.
There have been some criticisms, about umm, there hasn’t been as much diversity of voices on the panels and the speakers, as we were expecting.
And that is right for a conference like this, and that's true.
It is still a little bit, you know, the network of the great and the good, sort of, talking from their very learned notes and that is unfortunate.
Ok, well thank you very much.