A/RES/72/178
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/178.
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which it 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 70/169 of 17 December 2015,
entitled “The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation”,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding the
human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolution
33/10 of 29 September 2016, 1
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7
Recalling also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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