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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2019), para. 11
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- 5. Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of the implementation of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2006), para. 34
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- 21. Recalls General Comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the Covenant), 12 in which the Committee noted, inter alia, the importance of ensuring sustainable water resources for human consumption and agriculture in realization of the right to adequate food;
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- Food & Nutrition
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- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2013), para. 52
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- 31. Recognizes that the social integration of people living in poverty should encompass addressing and meeting their basic human needs, including nutrition, health, water, sanitation, housing and access to education and employment, through integrated development strategies;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030 (2016), para. 40
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- 11. Urges the international community to work in a spirit of cooperation towards effective, increased, harmonized, predictable and sustained bilater al and multilateral assistance and research to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist States, in particular malaria-endemic countries, to implement sound national plans, in particular health plans and sanitation plans, including malaria control and elimination strategies which may include evidence-based, cost-effective and context-appropriate environmental management solutions, and integrated management of childhood illnesses, in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to strengthening health system development approaches at the district level;
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- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The law of transboundary aquifers (2016), para. 05
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- Recognizing that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 includes a goal on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2019), para. 69
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- (w) Reaffirms the New Urban Agenda, 19 which envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function, including the social and ecological function of land, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the right to adequate housing, as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, without discrimination, universal access to safe and affordable drinking water and sanitation, as well as equal access for all to public goods and quality services in areas such as food security and nutrition, health, education, infrastructure, mobility and transportation, energy, air energy, air quality and livelihoods;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Sanitation, 2008 (2011), para. 14
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- Noting the efforts of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, and acknowledging the successes achieved through the community-led total sanitation approach, particularly in the context of hygiene promotion, behavioural change and sanitation progress,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 14
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- Welcoming also the fact that, according to the Joint Monitoring Programme report, an estimated 71 per cent of the global population uses a safely managed drinking water service system, while being deeply concerned, however, that 12 per cent of the global population still lacks even a basic drinking water service,
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- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (1998), para. 07
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- Aware of the additional, detrimental economic and social impact of the Israeli settlements on Palestinian and other Arab natural resources, especially the confiscation of land and the forced diversion of water resources,
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- Environment
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028 (2019), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed the period from 2018 to 2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 32
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- (c) To continuously monitor and regularly analyse the status of the realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028 (2017), para. 15
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- Recognizing that water-related issues, including relevant Sustainable Development Goals and targets, need to be better reflected in the agendas of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council,
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 53
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- 15. Stresses that improving access to productive resources and public investment in rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, including through the promotio n of investment, including private investment, in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts and to tackle water scarcity;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2016), para. 37
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- 10. Recognizes the need to increase the resilience of food and agricultural production to climate change, and encourages efforts at all levels to support climate - sensitive agricultural practices, including agroforestry, conservation agriculture, water management schemes, drought- and flood-resistant seeds and sustainable livestock management, and measures to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable groups and food systems, which can also have a wider positive impact, emphasizing adaptation to climate change as a major concern and objective for all farmers and food producers, especially small-scale and family-farm producers;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2017), para. 44
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- 14. Recognizes that sustainable food systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition, and welcomes the formulation and implementation of internationally consistent national policies, aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms and transforming food systems so as to make nutritious diets available to all, while reaffirming that health, water and sanitation systems must be strengthened simultaneously to end malnutrition;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2014), para. 46
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- 15. Recognizes the need to increase the resilience of food and agricultural production to climate change, and encourages efforts at all levels to support climate- sensitive agricultural practices, including agroforestry, conservation agriculture, water management schemes, drought- and flood-resistant seeds and sustainable livestock management, including measures to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable groups and food systems, which can also have a wider positive impact, emphasizing adaptation to climate change as a major concern and objective for all farmers and food producers, especially small-scale producers;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 33
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- 12. Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (2018), para. 34
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- 8. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to remove all obstacles to the implementation of critical environmental projects, including sewage treatment plants in the Gaza Strip and the reconstruction and development of water infrastructure, including the project for the desalination facility for the Gaza Strip;
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 235
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- (a) Ensuring that all households have access to basic food and medical supplies and other services, including education;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation (2010), para. 28
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- 10. Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system, international and development partners as well as by donor agencies, in particular in the timely achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goals, and urges development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and implementing development programmes in support of national initiatives and action plans related to the enjoyment of access to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 23
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- (e) To ensure full transparency of the monitoring and assessment of the implementation of plans of action, projects and programmes in the sectors of water and sanitation and to ensure, including in the planning process, the free, effective, meaningful and non-discriminatory participation of all people and communities concerned, particularly people living in disadvantaged, marginalized and vulnerable situations;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 170
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- 2. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to water for personal and domestic use, farming, fishing and livestock keeping and for securing other water-related livelihoods, ensuring the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of water. They have the right to equitable access to water and water management systems, and to be free from arbitrary disconnections or the contamination of water supplies.
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- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (2002), para. 10
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- Conscious that the work done by the Agency in the field of nuclear sciences and applications in the non-power sector contributes to sustainable development, especially with programmes aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity and food security, improving human health, increasing the availability of drinking water supplies and protecting the terrestrial and marine environment,
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- Environment
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- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Promoting the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development and related commitments on alternative development and regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented, balanced drug control policy addressing socioeconomic issues (2018), para. 40
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- 26. Calls upon Member States and other donors to consider providing long - term support to alternative development programmes and projects, including preventive alternative development programmes and projects, as appropriate, that target the illicit cultivation of drug crops, in order to contribute to the sustainability of social and economic development and poverty eradication, including through enhanced development-oriented approaches that implement measures for rural development, strengthen local governments and institutions, improve infrastructure, including the provision of public services such as water supply, energy, health and education in areas acutely impacted by the illicit cultivation of drug crops, promote the participation of local communities, enhance the empowerment of people and strengthen the resilience of communities;
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- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 15
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- Deeply concerned that 4.5 billion people lack a safely managed sanitation service, 2.3 billion people still lack even a basic sanitation service and 892 million people worldwide still practise open defecation, which is one of the clearest manifestations of poverty and extreme poverty,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2012), para. 31
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- 12. Invites States to continue to promote, at all levels, including at the highest level, the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation in forthcoming national, regional and international initiatives;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 19
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- (a) To continuously monitor and regularly analyse the status of the realization of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation on the basis of the criteria of availability, quality, acceptability, accessibility and affordability;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028 (2017), para. 14
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- Acknowledging the importance of deepening cooperation and partnership at all levels for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals on water and sanitation,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 088
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- 60. Urges the Government of Afghanistan to enhance efforts to reform key service delivery sectors, such as energy and drinking water supply, as preconditions for progress in social and economic development;
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2012), para. 15
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- 2. Also welcomes the commitments of States regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation made at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development on 22 June 2012;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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