Elizabeth Peredo
Bio
"Elizabeth Peredo Beltran: Social Psychologist, Bolivian researcher, writer and activist. She focuses her work on water as a common, environmental and cultural good. Peredo co-founded TAHIPAMU (The Women’s Participation in History Workshop) in the nineties, based in La Paz, she was the Coordinator of the National Comitee for Domestic Workers Rights and from 1999 has researched, published and campaigned for the rights of domestic workers, achieving the approvement of their law in 2003. Since 2000 she became involved in the activism of water struggles and produced reports, books, articles and video scripts on economic justice, new paradigms and climate justice. Since some years she promotes the Blue October Campaign in Bolivia, a social mobilization for water as a common, she belongs to the Board of Directors of Food and Water Watch in WDC, and is part of the Council of Advisors of the International Net for Justice in Global Investments. Since 2006 she is the Executive Director of Solon Foundation based in La Paz and works on water, economy, culture and feminist issues."