Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 68
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Article 25 (a) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides for the right to participate in public affairs. Participation must be active, free and meaningful. While it is often stressed that participation has significant instrumental value in ensuring more sustainable results, participation is a human right in itself, and non-compliance with the relevant human rights obligations may give rise to violations. Such violations may arise from direct denial of participation as well as indirect, by failure to take reasonable steps to facilitate participation, including by ensuring the right to access to information.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation