The June Newsletter of the UNESCO IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (Dundee, Scotland) is available online at http://www.dundee-reunited.com/document.doc?id=502.

Position:                              Sr. International Water Rights Advisor EQUALS                                Program Duty Station:                        Ministry of Energy & Water (MEW), Kabul, Afghanistan Summary Sr. International Water Rights Advisor collects, compiles and reviews readily available national and international water laws and policies and prepares a summary of key documents in order to consult

Food production from irrigated agriculture is growing riskier and more uncertain. Do conflict from competition for water, pollution from drainage, and the link land use/uses of water, including drainage, find a place in contemporary water laws? What issues and law reform pointers

This Summit seeks to favour a multidisciplinary debate on water resources problems among young researchers. AIDA will be represented by Monica Cardillo (Italy), who will present a paper by the title ‘The water issue between European law and African custom in the twentieth century.’ Further

This workshop, which will be held on 17 September, 2012, will deal with the practical implications of the UN Declaration of Water as a Human Right and will be structured as follows: Session 1 – Policy imperatives and regulatory requirements Chair – Gerard

UNU-INWEH is seeking a team member whose primary responsibilities concern formulating, developing and implementing new initiatives and proposals to further enhance the effectiveness and impact UNU-INWEH's activities. You will focus on applied science, knowledge management and capacity building in developing countries. Inter-acting with partners, such as UN and international

McMaster University is seeking an outstanding candidate for the Professorship in Water Policy and Research, cross-appointed to the Faculties of Engineering and Social Sciences, and generously supported by the Philomathia Foundation Water Project.  The context for the chair is the global water crisis in which

Benin became the 27th Party to the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention when it submitted its instrument of accession to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 5 July 2012. Benin is the third country to join the Convention this year following Luxembourg ratification on 8 June 2012 and Denmark

I am proud to announce that AIDA has secured a slot in the programme of this year’s edition of the World Water Week, which will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, 26-31 August 2012. In keeping with the over-arching Water and Food Security theme of this

The Symposium “The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – What Relevance in the 21st Century?” was convened by the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, operating under the auspices of UNESCO at the University of Dundee, and by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in