A/HRC/39/55
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 August 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-ninth session
10–28 September 2018
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe
drinking water and sanitation*
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Léo
Heller, prepared pursuant to Council resolutions 27/7 and 33/10. In the report, the Special
Rapporteur focuses on the human rights to water and sanitation of forcibly displaced
persons, in particular internally displaced persons, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in
vulnerable situations, while en route, at borders, at reception and at destination. He
examines the situation of their access to water and sanitation from a human rights
perspective by applying the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation
and the human rights principles of participation, equality and non-discrimination,
sustainability, progressive realization and access to remedies.
* The annex to the present document is reproduced as received, in the language of submission only.
GE.18-12800(E)