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Residents of Phiri, Soweto, South Africa, take their fight for water to the courts.
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Vusi Mahlasela is an award winning guitarist, percussionist, composer, arranger, band leader and performer, as well as an activist for human rights. Mahlasela's sound is a unique combination of world, soul, blues and folk, and his albums include "Guiding Star" and "The Voice". During Apartheid, Mahlasela used poetry and music to speak out against the goverment, and now serves as an ambassador to Nelson Mandela's 46664 Foundation, which is a campaign to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Vusi Mahlasela is also the founder of the Vusi Mahlasela Music Development Foundation, a charitable cultural music organization based in Pretoria, South Africa. The VMMDF is committed to promoting and preserving indigenous African cultural music in its diversity. The foundation strives to achieve this goal through their range of modern music development programs.
Corporate Accountability International, formerly Infact, is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. For over 25 years, we've forced corporations -- like Nestlé, General Electric and Philip Morris/Altria -- to stop abusive actions.
Panos works with the media and other communicators to foster debate on under-reported, misrepresented or misunderstood development issues.

