A/RES/70/169
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/489/Add.2)]
70/169. The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
The General Assembly,
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 68/157 of
18 December 2013, entitled “The human right to safe drinking water and
sanitation”,
Reaffirming the previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding
the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolut ions
24/18 of 27 September 2013 1 and 27/7 of 25 September 2014, 2
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 4 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 9
including the reaffirmation of commitments regarding the human right to saf e
drinking water and sanitation therein,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1),
chap. III.
2
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2),
chap. IV, sect. A.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
6
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
7
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
9
Resolution 70/1.
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