A/HRC/RES/57/13 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 10 October 2024 57/13. The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, in which it is reaffirmed that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, that human rights must be treated globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, and that it is the duty of States to promote and protect all human rights, and in which the right to development is also reaffirmed, Reaffirming all its previous resolutions on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, resolution 51/19 of 6 October 2022, Recalling all previous General Assembly resolutions on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, in particular resolution 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which the Assembly 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 resolution 78/206 of 19 December 2023, Recalling also that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their available resources, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation that are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and are inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as to the right to life and human dignity, Recalling further the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of its review conferences, GE.24-18733 (E)