“The right to water and to sanitation of our fellow citizens is violated there”, declare the elected officials in this letter addressed to Claire Hédon.
Posted
Reading time : 1 min.
Dry taps, bottles for showering … In Guadeloupe, the inhabitants are at their wit’s end with the incessant cuts of running water. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the head of the parliamentary group La France insoumise, Mathilde Panot, as well as the deputy La République en Marche of Guadeloupe Olivier Serva, announced Monday, December 13 to have seized the defender of rights on the “violation of the right to water” for the population of the archipelago.
“We would like to draw your attention to the particularly worrying situation” in Guadeloupe, they write in their mail. “The right to water and to sanitation of our fellow citizens is violated there, leading to the cascade violation of related fundamental rights: in particular the right to education and the right to health protection”, they add.
“The right to safe and clean drinking water is a fundamental right, essential for the full exercise of the right to life and all human rights”, continues the letter addressed to the defender of rights, Claire Hédon.
In Guadeloupe, 56% of the population is not connected to a sanitation network, an even more damaging situation during a pandemic because “without water, Guadeloupeans cannot perform the first barrier gesture, wash their hands “, also underlines LFI in a press release.
In the campaign for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is expected Tuesday in Guadeloupe, where he will visit the CHU des Abîmes on Wednesday and will meet suspended personnel as well as activists of the “collective in struggle” before holding a meeting in Gosier. Thursday, he will pay tribute to the Slave Market in Petit-Canal, before going to Martinique where he will hold a meeting on Saturday.