Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 673 entities
7 columns hidden
Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 63l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework does not call for any particular form of service provision. It is well established that, from a human rights perspective, States can opt to involve non-State actors in sanitation and water services provision. But the State cannot exempt itself from its human rights obligations and hence remains the primary duty-bearer. Therefore, also when involving other actors in services provision, the role of the State is crucial. The obligations of States and the responsibilities of non-State actors are complementary. The latter can and should support the State in the realization of human rights. In line with these conclusions, the independent expert offers the following recommendations:] States must put into place supplementary social policies to ensure inclusiveness, such as safety nets and subsidies. These measures must be well targeted to actually reach those who need it most; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 63m | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework does not call for any particular form of service provision. It is well established that, from a human rights perspective, States can opt to involve non-State actors in sanitation and water services provision. But the State cannot exempt itself from its human rights obligations and hence remains the primary duty-bearer. Therefore, also when involving other actors in services provision, the role of the State is crucial. The obligations of States and the responsibilities of non-State actors are complementary. The latter can and should support the State in the realization of human rights. In line with these conclusions, the independent expert offers the following recommendations:] To ensure accountability, States and other actors involved should clearly designate roles and responsibilities; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Planning for the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2011, para. 81d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Human rights law provides a framework for ambitious, but realistic planning. While the ultimate goal must be universal coverage, the notion of progressive realization tailors this goal to the country situation and allows for the time frame that proves to be realistic in a given context. States must go to the maximum of available resources in the realization of the rights to water and to sanitation, turning to international assistance where needed. Progressive realization also implies gradually higher levels of service. In line with this:] States should formulate and design the necessary measures to meet the set targets; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Sustainability and non-retrogression in the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 85 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Rapporteur considers sustainability to be a fundamental human rights principle essential for realizing the human rights to water and sanitation. She understands sustainability as the direct counterpart to retrogression; it requires that services be available and accessible to everyone on an almost permanent basis, without discrimination, while ensuring beneficial change through quality services and sustained behavior change. Water and sanitation must be available for present and future generations, and the provision of services today should not compromise the future ability to realize these human rights. Understanding sustainability from a human rights perspective greatly contributes to achieving lasting solutions to water and sanitation challenges for present and future generations. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Financing for the Realization of the Rights to Water and Sanitation 2011, para. 75a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Based on the findings of the present report, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Prioritize funding, both in the national budget and for official development assistance, for water and sanitation with a particular focus on extending access to the unserved or under-served. This should include measures to identify the most marginalized, excluded and disadvantaged populations in terms of access to water and sanitation and specific initiatives to improve their situation; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Wastewater management in the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 87i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with this, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations:] Donors, international organizations and other non-State actors, including the private sector, should meet their human rights obligations and responsibilities respectively, and support States in improving wastewater management and pollution control, in particular through targeting resources to address the most urgent and serious challenges and improve the lives and livelihoods of the most excluded and disadvantaged populations; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 63b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with these conclusions, the independent expert recommends the following:] States must have a vision of how to fully realize the rights to water and sanitation for all, and elaborate national strategies and action plans to implement this vision. These should be endorsed at the highest political level and integrated within national poverty reduction strategies and expenditure frameworks to ensure their operationalization, sustainability and comprehensiveness; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 76b (iii) d. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Against this background, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Recommendations regarding goals, targets and indicators for water, sanitation and hygiene: Future goals, targets and indicators on water, sanitation and hygiene must: Address group-related inequalities that vary across countries, such as those based on ethnicity, race, nationality, language and religion; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Stigma and the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2012, para. 82c (iv) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations:] Such study and its findings should, in particular: Serve as the basis for the design of specific policies and programmes, the allocation of financial and human resources, targeted evidence-based measures and, where needed, temporary special measures for groups and individuals facing stigma in relation to the rights to water and sanitation; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Wastewater management in the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 87j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with this, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations:] States should promote the integration of human rights into the post-2015 sustainable development agenda through, inter alia, incorporating the elimination of inequalities, drinking water safety, the collection and treatment of wastewater, especially addressing faecal sludge management, and putting particular emphasis on monitoring informal settlements. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 83e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Special Rapporteur therefore focuses her recommendations on how to more effectively ensure that violations are identified, prevented and remedied, with an emphasis on those areas which have been most neglected. She recommends that States:] Raise awareness on economic, social and cultural rights and the human rights to water and sanitation in particular so that individuals know their rights and will be able to claim them in the case of violations; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2014 | ||
Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 86 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affordability is key for the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation. Ensuring affordable service provision for all people requires a paradigm shift - starting from the perspective of human rights. Economic sustainability and affordability for all people are not impossible to reconcile, but human rights require rethinking current lines of argumentation and redesigning current instruments. The main challenge is to ensure that targeted measures and instruments do, in fact, reach the people who rely on them most. For instance, tariffs must be designed in such a way that the most disadvantaged of those connected to formal utilities receive the assistance they need. It also requires ensuring that public finance and subsidies reach the most marginalized and disadvantaged individuals and communities, who are often not (yet) connected to a formal network, who may live in informal settlements without any formal title or in remote rural areas where self-supply is common, and who are often overlooked or deliberately ignored in current policymaking and planning. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2015 | ||
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 85 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A variety of operational tools was observed among the different funders, some with greater relevance to the human rights to water and sanitation than others. The extent to which those tools can guarantee that development cooperation projects will have positive impacts on human rights depends on at least two factors. First, tools based explicitly on the human rights framework will naturally be more apt to incorporate all relevant standards and cause minimal negative impacts. Recognizing that water and sanitation projects are parts of broader, dynamic contexts that can limit a given project’s results, such tools must ensure adaptability in order to maximize the progressive realization of the human rights to water and sanitation and other related rights. Second, mainstreaming the use of such tools by operational teams involved in project implementation will avoid the risk of standards being applied selectively. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2017 | ||
The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 63h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with these conclusions, the independent expert recommends the following:] Data collection at the global level and human rights-based monitoring must disaggregate progress according to different grounds of discrimination. Gender and wealth quintiles must be prioritized for that purpose. In addition, a contextualized approach to disaggregation is required. States must identify groups and individuals under their jurisdiction who face discrimination and specifically monitor progress in improving their access to sanitation and water; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 61 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The independent expert considers that a more nuanced approach is needed in the debate on the participation of non-State actors in water and services provision, namely, one that overcomes the simplistic public vs. private debate and acknowledges the existence of a wide variety of actors and arrangements for the delivery of water and sanitation services. These are rarely exclusively public or private, and they also involve both the formal and informal sectors. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 76b (iii) e. | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Against this background, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Recommendations regarding goals, targets and indicators for water, sanitation and hygiene: Future goals, targets and indicators on water, sanitation and hygiene must: Address the impacts of individual-related inequalities, present in every country of the globe, such as those based on sex/gender, age, and disability - as they are experienced in the public and private spheres; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Wastewater management in the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 87f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with this, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations:] States should put in place stronger regulations and independent regulators. They should assign clear institutional responsibilities for all aspects of wastewater management and pollution control, including faecal sludge management. They should develop capacity, including for overseeing and coordinating the sector. They must ensure participation by concerned communities and stakeholders in decision-making on wastewater management in order to promote sustainable solutions; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2013 | ||
Development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector 2016, para. 74h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with the above, with respect to development cooperation in the water and sanitation sector, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States and multilateral funders:] Correct the imbalance in funding of water supply and sanitation services, giving due priority to the sanitation sector and particular consideration to the related needs of the most disadvantaged populations, and adopt appropriate technology that takes into account the sociocultural characteristics of the target populations; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2016 | ||
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 91a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the project selection, design and implementation stages, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance of measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance (ibid., para. 74 (b)) and recommends that funders:] Balance water and sanitation projects and coverage of those services between urban and rural areas in a way consistent with the progressive realization of the rights to water and sanitation in each context; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2017 | ||
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 91b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the project selection, design and implementation stages, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance of measures and safeguards with the specific aim of ensuring human rights compliance (ibid., para. 74 (b)) and recommends that funders:] Ensure that the selection, design and implementation of projects apply the framework for the human rights to water and sanitation, notably prioritizing those people in the most vulnerable situations; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2017 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 63n | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework does not call for any particular form of service provision. It is well established that, from a human rights perspective, States can opt to involve non-State actors in sanitation and water services provision. But the State cannot exempt itself from its human rights obligations and hence remains the primary duty-bearer. Therefore, also when involving other actors in services provision, the role of the State is crucial. The obligations of States and the responsibilities of non-State actors are complementary. The latter can and should support the State in the realization of human rights. In line with these conclusions, the independent expert offers the following recommendations:] States must put into place accountability mechanisms at the national level. They should also adhere to mechanisms at the regional and international levels and should, in particular, ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 63o | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework does not call for any particular form of service provision. It is well established that, from a human rights perspective, States can opt to involve non-State actors in sanitation and water services provision. But the State cannot exempt itself from its human rights obligations and hence remains the primary duty-bearer. Therefore, also when involving other actors in services provision, the role of the State is crucial. The obligations of States and the responsibilities of non-State actors are complementary. The latter can and should support the State in the realization of human rights. In line with these conclusions, the independent expert offers the following recommendations:] States should ensure that economic, social and cultural rights, including the rights to sanitation and water, are justiciable before national courts and other accountability mechanisms. They must ensure access to justice in practical terms, including physical and economic access on an equitable basis; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 63p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework does not call for any particular form of service provision. It is well established that, from a human rights perspective, States can opt to involve non-State actors in sanitation and water services provision. But the State cannot exempt itself from its human rights obligations and hence remains the primary duty-bearer. Therefore, also when involving other actors in services provision, the role of the State is crucial. The obligations of States and the responsibilities of non-State actors are complementary. The latter can and should support the State in the realization of human rights. In line with these conclusions, the independent expert offers the following recommendations:] Non-State actors must not obstruct access to State-based mechanisms and should also provide grievance mechanisms. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 | ||
Planning for the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2011, para. 82c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework requires a coherent and comprehensive approach to planning that emphasizes the underlying structural causes and systemic biases for the lack of access to water and sanitation. It requires considering how laws, social norms, traditional practices and institutional structures and actions affect access. As such, the human rights framework helps to not only cure the symptoms, that is, the lack of access, but aims at addressing the underlying reasons, leading to more sustainable results. In this regard:] States must ensure transparency throughout the planning process, making relevant information, including on existing policies and measures, and expert advice on available technical options, as well as drafts of the plan, publicly available in all relevant languages via multiple channels to ensure accessibility. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Planning for the realization of the rights to water and sanitation 2011, para. 83a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The human rights framework puts a strong emphasis on accountability. Legal frameworks provide the basis for accountability by allowing people to base their claims on legally binding entitlements. These should be complemented by targets backed by relevant and reliable data and reflecting State commitment for which Governments can be held accountable. In this regard:] States must review existing legislation to detect gaps and to assess whether the existing legislative framework is in line with the rights to water and to sanitation. Where legislation is found to be inconsistent, it must be repealed, amended or adapted to meet human rights standards and principles; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2011 | ||
Development cooperation and the human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 84 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Similar to the broad conclusion reached in the first report (A/71/302, paras. 41-44), the Special Rapporteur finds that the explicit commitment to human rights in the six funders’ policies constitutes a heterogeneous patchwork. While some funders’ policies consider the human rights framework, particularly the human rights to water and sanitation, others are only sporadically aligned with those rights and reveal varying degrees of clarity regarding their application to development cooperation. However, even in cases where the human rights framework was adequately incorporated in funders’ policies, the Special Rapporteur observed significant gaps in the application of this framework during project implementation. The root causes of such gaps are varied, including non-implementation of applicable policies at the project stage, non-integration of the human rights framework in the funder’s policies and tools and the absence of a human rights approach in the project selection and design stages. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2017 | ||
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 89e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure that access to water and sanitation services is not conditioned by land tenure in law and in regulatory frameworks; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2017 | ||
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 76b (i) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Against this background, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Recommendations regarding goals, targets and indicators for water, sanitation and hygiene: The post-2015 development agenda should incorporate a stand-alone goal on water, sanitation and hygiene, to ensure that universal access to these services will be treated as a vital feature of social and economic development, on equal footing with health or education. Water, sanitation and hygiene should not be neglected in the global priority-setting for development goals; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Stigma and the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2012, para. 82c (ii) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations:] Such study and its findings should, in particular: Be widely disseminated, including with the purpose of increasing awareness about the pervasive impact of stigma in the exercise of the rights to water and sanitation. States and other stakeholders should adopt broad-based awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns to ensure the visibility of the situation of individuals or groups of individuals facing stigma; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2012 | ||
Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation 2010, para. 62 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In the present report, the independent expert has focused on the role of non-State service providers. Recognizing that service provision is an essential component of the realization of the rights to water and sanitation, she intends to continue working on this issue. For instance, she considers that instruments for the delegation of service provision such as contracts and mandates of State-owned companies would benefit from a human rights analysis. In that context, she notes with interest the work the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises is undertaking in the area of responsible contracting. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
|
| 2010 |