A/HRC/RES/15/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 October 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
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*
15/9
Human rights and access to safe drinking water and
sanitation
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the Council on human rights and access to
safe drinking water and sanitation, in particular resolution 7/22 of 28 March 2008 and
resolution 12/8 of 1 October 2009,
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 relevant provisions of declarations and programmes with regard to
access to safe drinking water and sanitation adopted by major United Nations conferences
and summits, and by the General Assembly at its special sessions and during follow-up
meetings, inter alia, the Mar del Plata Action Plan on Water and Development and
Administration, adopted at the United Nations Water Conference in March 1977, Agenda
21 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, adopted at the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992, and the Habitat
Agenda, adopted at the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1996,
Assembly resolutions 54/175 of 17 December 1999 on the right to development, and
58/271 of 23 December 2003 proclaiming the International Decade for Action, “Water for
Life” (2005-2015),
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GE.10-16633
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.