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Maude Barlow | |
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| Born | Maude Victoria Barlow May 24, 1947 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | author and activist |
| Known for | The Council of Canadians, Food & Water Watch, World Future Council |
| Awards | Right Livelihood Award |
Maude Victoria Barlow (born May 24, 1947) is a Canadian author and activist. She is a founding member and former board chair of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada.[1] She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the human right to water. Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, serves on the Board of Advisors to the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, was a founding member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization, and was a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is the Chancellor of Brescia University College at Western University.[2] In 2008/2009, was Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly.[3][4]
She has authored and co-authored 20 books, including Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands and Still Hopeful, Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism.
- ^ "Maude Barlow | The Council of Canadians". canadians.org. August 29, 2019. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ "Our Chancellor". Brescia University College. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ Barlow, Maude. "Notes for UN Panel, International Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2009". Scribd. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ "In Historic Vote, UN Declares Water a Fundamental Human Right". Democracy Now. Retrieved October 26, 2016.