A/RES/72/178
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
(j) To provide for effective accountability mechanisms for all water and
sanitation service providers, including private sector providers, to ensure that they
respect human rights and do not cause or contribute to human rights violations or
abuses;
5.
Calls upon non-State actors, including business enterprises, both
transnational and others, to comply with their responsibility to respect human rights,
including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, including by
cooperating with State investigations into allegations of abuses of the human rights
to safe drinking water and sanitation, and by progressively engaging with States to
detect and remedy abuses of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
6.
Invites regional and international organizations to complement efforts by
States to progressively realize the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
7.
Calls upon Member States to enhance global partnerships for sustainable
development as a means to achieve and sustain the Goals and the targets of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, 14 and highlights that the 2030 Agenda marks a
paradigm shift towards a more balanced and integrated plan of action for achieving
sustainable development that reflects the indivisibility and interdependence of all
human rights;
8.
Reaffirms that the high-level political forum on sustainable development,
under the auspices of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council,
has the central role in overseeing follow-up and review at the global level, and
encourages Member States to share their experiences and best practices with regard
to the Goals under review during the 2018 high-level political forum, including the
Goal of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation
for all;
9.
Also reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full
realization of all human rights and to endeavour to take steps, individually and
through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical
cooperation, 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 by all appropriate means, including, in particular, the adoption of
legislative measures;
10. Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical
assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system and
international and development partners, as well as by donor agencies, and urges
development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and
implementing development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans
of action related to the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
11.
session.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its seventy-fourth
73rd plenary meeting
19 December 2017
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