Access to clean water is a human right: The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which amended the right to clean water in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The proposal was introduced by Bolivia, and the final text received 122 votes in favor, no dissenting votes and some abstentions. 163 out of 192 member states were present.



The recently published book "Security and the Environment" provides an overview of the links between securitisation theory and the debate about environmental threats. It uses changing US environmental security policy to propose a revision of securitisation theory, which should both allow insights into the intentions of key actors and enable moral evaluations in the environmental sector of security.



In June 2010, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) published an occasional paper entitled "Revenue transparency to mitigate the resource curse in the Niger Delta?" The paper analyzes the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and its potential to mitigate negative consequences of oil extraction in the Niger Delta and to overcome the so-called resource curse.



Published in: ECC-Newsletter, August 2010