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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 11
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- Recalling general comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) and the statement on the right to sanitation of the Committee of 19 November 2010, as well as the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Equality & Inclusion
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 4b
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- [Calls upon States:] To ensure the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for all in a non-discriminatory manner while eliminating inequalities in access, including for individuals belonging to groups at risk and to marginalized groups, on the grounds of race, gender, age, disability, ethnicity, culture, religion and national or social origin or on any other grounds;
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 2
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- Recognizes that the human right to safe drinking water entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use, and that the human right to sanitation entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, that is safe, hygienic, secure, socially and culturally acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity, while reaffirming that both rights are components of the right to an adequate standard of living;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 13
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- Recognizes the need to increase the resilience and sustainability of food and agricultural production with regard to climate change in the context of the rising demand for crops, bearing in mind the importance of safeguarding food security and ending hunger and the particular vulnerabilities of food production systems to the adverse impacts of 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 to establish and strengthen interfaces between scientists, decision makers, entrepreneurs and funders of science, technology and innovation, as well as measures to strengthen the resilience of those in vulnerable situations and of 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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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 21
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- Deeply concerned that non-existent or inadequate sanitation facilities and serious deficiencies in water management and wastewater treatment can negatively affect water provision and sustainable access to safe drinking water and that, according to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2017, over 80 per cent of the world’s wastewater, and over 95 per cent in some of the least developed countries, is released into the environment without treatment,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Equality & Inclusion
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 16
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- 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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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Food & Nutrition
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 7
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- Recalling its resolution 71/256 of 23 December 2016, entitled “New Urban Agenda”, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held from 17 to 20 October 2016 in Quito, which promotes equitable and affordable access to sustainable basic physical and social infrastructure for all, without discrimination, including safe drinking water and sanitation,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Equality & Inclusion
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 4j
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- [Calls upon States:] 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;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 26
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- Affirming the importance of regional and international technical cooperation, where appropriate, as a means to promote the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, without any prejudice to questions of international water law, including international watercourse law,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 22
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- Affirming the importance of continually improving the availability of high-quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data on progress related to safe drinking water and sanitation services as an indispensable means for States to plan for, implement and monitor the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for all,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 14
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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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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Equality & Inclusion
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 2
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- Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolution 33/10 of 29 September 2016,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 13
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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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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 27
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- Reaffirming the responsibility of States to ensure the promotion and protection of all human rights, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 1
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- Reaffirms that the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, as components of the right to an adequate standard of living, are essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life and all human rights;
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 1
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- Recalling its resolutions 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which it recognized the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights, and 70/169 of 17 December 2015, entitled “The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation”,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 28
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- Recalling that the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and are inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as to the right to life and human dignity,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 4
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- Recalling also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 12
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- Welcoming the work of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund in the 2017 update published by their Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 6
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- Reaffirming its resolution 71/222 of 21 December 2016, by which it proclaimed the period 2018–2028 the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 9
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- 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;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Equality & Inclusion
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 3
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- Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 15
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- Deeply concerned also about the lack of access to adequate water and sanitation services and its dramatic consequences for the overall health situation in humanitarian crises, including in times of conflict and natural disaster, acknowledging that people living in countries affected by conflict, violence and instability are four times as likely to lack basic drinking water and twice as likely to lack basic sanitation as people living in unaffected countries,
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 30
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- 9. 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 plans of action related to the right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028 (2019), para. 20
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- 3. Reaffirms its decision, in accordance with its resolution 71/222 on the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, to review the implementation of the Decade at its seventy-seventh session;
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Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for Ethiopia (2006), para. 15
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- 3. Also welcomes the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, the international community and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to strengthen mechanisms already in place to respond to such emergency situations, expresses appreciation of their endeavours to increase the availability of food through the procurement of local produce and to ensure access of households in need to food, health and water facilities, sanitation, seeds and veterinary services, and strongly encourages the Government of Ethiopia to continue such efforts;
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Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation (2010), para. 25
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- (b) Contribute to the provision of a regular supply of safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation services of good quality and sufficient quantity;
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The right to food (2011), para. 29
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- 10. Stresses that improving access to productive resources and public investment in rural development are essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, including through the promotion of investments in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 22
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- (d) To assess whether the existing legislative and policy framework is in line with the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and to repeal, amend or adapt it in order to meet human rights standards and principles;
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 31
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- (b) To give due consideration to the commitments regarding the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation when implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including through the full implementation of Goal 6;
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