A/RES/74/141
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70
Promotion and protection of human rights
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399)]
74/141.
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which it recognized the right
to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for
the full enjoyment of life and all human rights, and 72/178 of 19 December 2017,
entitled “The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation”,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding the
human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolution 39/8
of 27 September 2018, 1
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7
Recalling also that the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are
derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and are inextricably related
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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