Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 75
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- International mechanisms for identifying, adjudicating and remedying violations offer important opportunities for developing clearer understanding of violations and appropriate remedies. Inquiry mechanisms allow the treaty bodies to act at their own initiative and offer an innovative tool to address systemic violations of rights and situations where victims are unable to seek remedies. However, international bodies can only intervene in a few cases, when national remedies have been exhausted or are not available or effective, and the record of implementation of their decisions is not strong. Most of the work in identifying and remedying violations must be accomplished by domestic institutions. It is at the domestic level that laws and policies can be better influenced through civil society participation and be more context-specific, and where there is a better record of implementation of judicial decisions.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 75
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