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Urgent Action: Water Referendum in danger due to Colombian Congress' failure to respond
Promoters of Water Referendum - May 14, 2010Send a letter to the Colombian Congress asking them to debate and aprove this civitizens initiative that gathered the support of more than 2 million signatures.
Send your urgent action letter here:
http://censat.org/Carta-Referendo
Note: the letter sent through this link will be in spanish, see translation below:
Through this action we would like to alert the national and international community that the project for constitutional reform in favor of water as a common good and basic human right is currently in danger. After 18 months, the popular initiative is aproaching its end due to constitutional limits that prevents it from being discussed from more than 2 legislative periods.
The Referendum should be debated and approved before the closing of the congresional session by then end of june. During the last 4 weeks we have been waiting for Representatives in Congress to define their position regarding the project. Nevertheless, due to their negligence, the issue of the referendum remains unresolved with the danger of it being sunk.
What to do?
Also, we denounce the violation of Law 5 of 1992, which gives priority to the Referendum for Water as a Basic Human Right, today in danger of being sunk for running out of time.
We hope that next week, the more than 2 million colombians supporting this initiative will be able to hear about developments regarding this referendum in Congress, which would benefit all colombians still having faith in its institutions and democracy.
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