A/RES/64/292
United Nations
Distr.: General
3 August 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 48
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 28 July 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/64/L.63/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
64/292. The human right to water and sanitation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/175 of 17 December 1999 on the right to
development, 55/196 of 20 December 2000, by which it proclaimed 2003 the
International Year of Freshwater, 58/217 of 23 December 2003, by which it
proclaimed the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015,
59/228 of 22 December 2004, 61/192 of 20 December 2006, by which it proclaimed
2008 the International Year of Sanitation, and 64/198 of 21 December 2009
regarding the midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the
International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”; Agenda 21 of June 1992; 1 the
Habitat Agenda of 1996; 2 the Mar del Plata Action Plan of 1977 adopted by the
United Nations Water Conference; 3 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and
Development of June 1992, 4
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Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 5 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 6 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights,6 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 7 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 8 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 9 the
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1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3–14 June 1996
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
3
Report of the United Nations Water Conference, Mar del Plata, 14–25 March 1977 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.77.II.A.12), chap. I.
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
8
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
9
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
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