Participation in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 49
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- Direct participation poses challenges in terms of processing and responding to the variety of inputs. Channelling participation through representatives other than democratically elected officials is seen as a solution to making participation manageable, but it poses difficult questions and runs the risk of creating and reinforcing exclusions. People hold rights as individuals and have varied and often conflicting views and interests, which makes it difficult for anyone to represent anyone else. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for instance, stresses that persons with disabilities must be enabled to participate, not only organizations working on their behalf (arts. 29, 33 (3)). However, there is a need to facilitate participatory processes and come to decisions that reflect everyone's interest to the largest extent possible.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 49
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