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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well
as to the right to life and human dignity,
Noting general comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) 9 and the statement on the right
to sanitation of the Committee of 19 November 2010, 10 and taking note of the reports
of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the human rights to safe
drinking water and sanitation,
Taking note of the United Nations World Water Development Report 2021, the
outcome document of the High-level Panel on Water, entitled “Making every drop
count: an agenda for water action”, the Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis
Report on Water and Sanitation, the outcomes and Ministerial Declaration of the
eighth World Water Forum, held in Brasilia from 18 to 23 March 2018, and the
Sustainable Development Goal 6 Global Acceleration Framework, as well as the
publication of the United Nations Children’s Fund entitled “Reimagining WASH:
water security for all”,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to ensure the promotion and protection
of and respect for all human rights, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent
and interrelated, and must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development 11 and outcome documents of review conferences,
reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 12 the outcome
documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly 13 and the
declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of
the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 14
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, for the achievement of
sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and
environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, ensuring that no one is left
behind, and stressing the importance of monitoring and reporting on the
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed
the period 2018–2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable
Development”,
Stressing the importance of monitoring and reporting on the implementation of
the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals and targets, including the
Goal on ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22),
annex IV.
Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 2 (E/2011/22), annex VI.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, a nnexes I and II.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and
corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7
and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap I, sect. A; ibid., 2015, Supplement
No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. C, resolution 59/1, annex; and ibid., 2020, Supplement No. 7
(E/2020/27), chap. I, sect. A.
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