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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 9
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- Noting the relevant commitments and initiatives promoting the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation made at the 2014 high-level meeting of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and in the Ngor Declaration on Sanitation and Hygiene, adopted at the fourth African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene, in 2015, the Dhaka Declaration, adopted at the sixth South Asian Conference on Sanitation, in 2016, the Lima Declaration, adopted at the fourth Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Sanitation, in 2016, and the Dar es Salam road map for achieving the Ngor commitments on water security and sanitation in Africa, adopted at the sixth Africa Water Week, in 2016,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 9e
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- [Notes with concern that, in spite of all efforts, gender inequalities still exist in the realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and therefore calls upon States:] To increase collaboration between the water, sanitation and hygiene sector and other sectors, including the education, employment and health sectors, and to address inequalities on the grounds of race, gender, age, disability, ethnicity, culture, religion and national or social origin or on any grounds, with a view to progressively eliminating inequalities in a comprehensive manner;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 5
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- Also takes note with appreciation of the annual report of the previous mandate holder submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the right to participation in the context of realizing the right to safe drinking water and sanitation and the annual report of the current Special Rapporteur submitted to the General Assembly at its seventieth session on the human rights framework for water, sanitation and hygiene and the relevant human rights standards and principles that serve to assess different levels and types of services;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 1
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- Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 6
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- Reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and must take steps, nationally and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their available resources, to achieve progressively the full realization of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures in the implementation of their human rights obligations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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- 2016
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 7
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- Stresses the important role of international cooperation and technical assistance by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system and international and development partners, and by donor agencies, in particular in the timely achievement of the relevant Sustainable Development Goals, and urges development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing, implementing and monitoring development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans of action relating to the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 9b
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- [Notes with concern that, in spite of all efforts, gender inequalities still exist in the realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and therefore calls upon States:] To take action to tackle systemic inequalities and to meet their obligations to effectively achieve substantive gender equality in the enjoyment of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, including through the implementation of targeted gender-responsive policies, budgets and measures that go beyond enacting formal provisions;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 17
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- Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item and in accordance with its programme of work.
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2016, para. 16
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- Recalling the understanding by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation that the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are closely related, but have features that warrant distinct treatment in order to address specific challenges in their implementation, that sanitation too often remains neglected if not addressed as a separate right, and that both rights are components of the right to an adequate standard of living,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2012, para. 4
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- Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, the comprehensive, transparent and inclusive consultations conducted with relevant and interested actors from all regions for her thematic reports and compilation of good practices, and the undertaking of country missions;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2012
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2016, para. 31
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- Encourages States to consider developing their legal structures in order to protect resources directly related to the right to food, such as water resources, access to land and seed production;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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- 2016
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 12
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- Concerned that the official figures do not fully capture the dimensions of drinking water safety, affordability of services and safe management of excreta and wastewater, and therefore underestimate the numbers of those without access to safe and affordable drinking water and safely managed and affordable sanitation, and highlighting in this context the need to adequately monitor the safety of drinking water and sanitation in order to obtain data that capture those dimensions as a critical part of securing access to safe drinking water and the safe management of sanitation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 11b
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- [Calls upon States:] To identify patterns of failure to respect, protect or fulfil the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation for all persons without discrimination and to address their structural causes in policymaking and budgeting within a broader framework, while undertaking holistic planning aimed at achieving sustainable universal access, including in instances where the private sector, donors and non-governmental organizations are involved in service provision;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 11a
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- [Calls upon States:] To achieve progressively the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 16
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- Recalling General Assembly resolution 67/291, entitled “Sanitation for All”, in which the Assembly encouraged all Member States, as well as the organizations of the United Nations system and international organizations and other stakeholders, to approach the sanitation issue in a much broader context and to encompass all its aspects, including hygiene promotion, the provision of basic sanitation services, sewerage and wastewater treatment and reuse in the context of integrated water management,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 6
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- Further welcomes the annual report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the General Assembly on managing wastewater, curbing water pollution and improving water quality for the realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, in which she emphasized the need to ensure that respect for, protection of and fulfilment of human rights are integrated into wastewater management and to develop a holistic approach to sustainable water resource management, including wastewater management;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- 2014
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- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 7
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- Bearing in mind the commitments made by the international community to achieve fully the Millennium Development Goals, and stressing in that context the resolve of Heads of State and Government, as expressed in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people unable to reach or afford safe drinking water, and to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation, as agreed in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 8
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- Reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and must take steps, nationally and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their available resources, to achieve progressively the full realization of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures in the implementation of their human rights obligations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 6
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- Reaffirming the commitment to human rights as expressed in General Assembly resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, entitled “United Nations Millennium Declaration”, and its follow-up resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, entitled “2005 World Summit Outcome”, and 65/1 of 22 September 2010, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, as well as in resolutions 66/288 of 11 September 2012, entitled “The future we want”, and 68/6 of 9 October 2013, entitled “Outcome document of the special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals”,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 8
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- Taking note of relevant commitments and initiatives promoting the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, including the Abuja Declaration, adopted at the first Africa-South America Summit, in 2006; the Sharm el-Sheikh Final Document, adopted at the Fifteenth Summit Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, in 2009; the Panama Declaration, adopted at the third Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Sanitation, in 2013; the Kathmandu Declaration, adopted at the fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation, in 2013; and the commitments made on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation at the Sanitation and Water for All High-Level Meeting, in 2014,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The right to food 2015, para. 28
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- Encourages States to consider developing their legal structures in order to protect resources directly related to the right to food, such as water resources, access to land and seed production;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 13
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- 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 right to safe drinking water and sanitation, to identify challenges and obstacles to the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, as well as protection gaps thereto, to continue to identify good practices and enabling factors in this regard, and to monitor the way in which the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is being realized throughout the world;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 4
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- Welcomes the fact that the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals proposed in its outcome document a goal on water and sanitation and targets on universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, highlighting in particular the dimensions of safety, affordability, adequacy, equality, participation and sustainability, that it proposed objectives to end open defecation and to improve wastewater treatment, and that special attention be given to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations, and invites States to consider adequately the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
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- Women
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- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 3
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- Alarmed by the fact that, according to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Programme update, the percentage of the global population without access to an improved sanitation facility decreased by only 7 per cent between 1990 and 2012 and that, if current trends continue, the Millennium Development Goal target on sanitation will be missed by more than half a billion people, and calls upon all Member States to continue to support the global effort to realize the goals of the advocacy campaign “Sustainable sanitation: the five-year drive to 2015”, including action to eliminate the practice of open defecation, as called for by the Deputy Secretary-General on 28 May 2014;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 16
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- Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item and in accordance with its programme of work.
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 9
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- Stresses the important role of international cooperation and the technical assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system and 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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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 22
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- Decides to continue its consideration of this matter, under the same agenda item and in accordance with its programme of work.
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 9
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- Bearing in mind the commitments made by the international community to achieve fully the Millennium Development Goals, and stressing in that context the resolve of Heads of State and Government, as expressed in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people unable to reach or afford safe drinking water, and to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation, as agreed in the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 15
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- Stresses the important role of international cooperation and the technical assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system and 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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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 10
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- Taking note of relevant commitments and initiatives promoting the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, including the Abuja Declaration, adopted at the first Africa-South America Summit, in 2006; the Sharm el-Sheikh Final Document, adopted at the Fifteenth Summit Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, in 2009; the Colombo Declaration, adopted at the fourth South Asian Conference on Sanitation, in 2011; the Chiang Mai Declaration, adopted at the second Asia-Pacific Water Summit, in 2013; and the Panama Declaration, adopted at the third Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Sanitation, in 2013,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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