soundcloud – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:36:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png soundcloud – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 Fordham’s Water Justice Expert Joins UN Panel for World Water Day https://now.fordham.edu/politics-and-society/women-and-the-right-to-water/ Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:36:51 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=44031 March 22 is World Water Day, an international observance of global issues related to water justice and sanitation.

To commemorate the day and educate others about these critical issues, Fordham’s water expert Christiana Peppard, PhD, assistant professor of theology, will join an interactive panel at the Untied Nations headquarters in New York City. The panel, “Women, Water, and Wellbeing: The Human Right to Water and Sanitation,” will address the intersection of women’s justice and the basic human right to water and sanitation.

Listen to Peppard explain what it means to seek water justice means and why this issue impacts women in particular.

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