The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 12
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- Deeply concerned that approximately 768 million people still lack access to improved water sources and that more than 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation as defined by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund in their 2013 Joint Monitoring Programme update, and concerned that these figures do not fully capture the dimensions of water safety, the affordability of services, and the safe management of excreta and wastewater, as well as of equality and non-discrimination, and therefore underestimate the numbers of those without access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and alarmed that, every year, approximately 1.5 million children under five years of age die and 443 million school days are lost as a result of water- and sanitation-related diseases,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- PP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2013), A/HRC/RES/24/18, PP 12.
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- PP
- Paragraph number
- 12
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