KHRP was invited by the New Water Culture Foundation and Foro Mundial in July to present the case of mass displacement caused by the Ilisu Dam project in south-east Turkey at the Zaragoza Expo 2008, which had the theme ‘Water and Sustainability’.

On 3 and 4 July, Development and Outreach Officer Anna Irvin took part in El Faro civil society pavilion at the expo, in which the New Water Culture Foundation and other organisations working on issues relating to water, sustainability and human rights held an exhibition based on 45 case studies illustrating destructive water policies around the world.