Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation 2015, para. 5
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The human right to sanitation requires services to be available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable. The former Special Rapporteur defined sanitation as a "system for the collection, transport, treatment and disposal or reuse of human excreta and associated hygiene. States must ensure without discrimination that everyone has physical and economic access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, which is safe, hygienic, secure, socially and culturally acceptable, provides privacy and ensures dignity" (see A/HRC/12/24, para. 63).
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation