The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 10
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- Welcoming the fact that, according to the 2012 Joint Monitoring Programme report of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Millennium Development Goal target relating to the reduction by 50 per cent of people without access to an improved water source was formally met five years before its deadline of 2015, while being deeply concerned, however, that, according to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Programme update, a large number of the world’s population still does not enjoy access to safe drinking water, as 748 million people, nearly half of them in sub-Saharan Africa, still lack access to improved drinking-water sources, and that at least 1.8 billion people are estimated to be using an improved or unimproved drinking water source that is unsafe,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- PP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2014), A/HRC/RES/27/7, PP 10.
- Paragraph info
- PP
- Paragraph number
- 10
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