United Nations
A/RES/71/222
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 19 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463/Add.1)]
71/222. International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable
Development”, 2018–2028
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/193 of 22 December 1992 on the observance of
World Day for Water, 55/196 of 20 December 2000, by which it proclaimed 2003
the International Year of Freshwater, 58/217 of 23 December 2003, by which it
proclaimed the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005 –2015,
61/192 of 20 December 2006, by which it proclaimed 2008 the International Year of
Sanitation, 65/154 of 20 December 2010, by which it proclaimed 2013 the
International Year of Water Cooperation, and 67/204 of 21 December 2012 on the
implementation of the International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013,
Recalling also its resolutions 64/198 of 21 December 2009 on the midterm
comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action,
“Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and 69/215 of 19 December 2014, in which it
welcomed activities undertaken for the observance of the Decade and encouraged
relevant parties to continue to take steps to achieve the internationally agreed water related goals,
Recalling further its resolutions 68/157 of 18 December 2013 on the human
right to safe drinking water and sanitation and 70/169 of 17 December 2015 on the
human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and the relevant resolutions of
the Human Rights Council, including resolutions 24/18 of 27 September 2013 1 and
27/7 of 25 September 2014, 2
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolutions 1980/67 of 25 July 1980
on international years and anniversaries and 1989/84 of 24 May 1989 on guidelines
for international decades in economic and social fields and General Assembly
resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the
proclamation of international years,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
2
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2),
chap. IV.
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