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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2015, para. 5a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [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, with a view to progressively eliminating inequalities based on factors such as rural-urban disparities, residence in a slum, income levels and other relevant considerations; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2015, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2011, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling World Health Assembly resolution 64/24 of May 2011, in which the Assembly urged Member States to, inter alia, “ensure that national health strategies contribute to the realization of water- and sanitation-related Millennium Development Goals while coming in support to the progressive realization of the human right to water and sanitation that entitles everyone, without discrimination, to water and sanitation that is sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable for personal and domestic uses”; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 8.1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | All countries should give priority to measures that improve the quality of life and health by ensuring a safe and sanitary living environment for all population groups through measures aimed at avoiding crowded housing conditions, reducing air pollution, ensuring access to clean water and sanitation, improving waste management, and increasing the safety of the workplace. Special attention should be given to the living conditions of the poor and disadvantaged in urban and rural areas. The impact of environmental problems on health, particularly that of vulnerable groups, should be monitored by Governments on a regular basis. | International Conference on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use and 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; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing also that improving access to productive resources and investment in rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, through, inter alia, the promotion of investments in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts and tackle water scarcity, as well as in programmes, practices and policies to scale up agroecological approaches, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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 on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Right to food 2011, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also its resolutions 58/217 of 23 December 2003, by which it proclaimed the period from 2005 to 2015 the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, and 65/154 of 20 December 2010, by which it declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 6b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To continuously monitor and regularly analyse the status of the realization of the human right to safe drinking water; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 6d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To ensure the progressive realization of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation for all in a non-discriminatory manner while eliminating inequalities in access, including for individuals belonging to vulnerable and marginalized groups, on the grounds of race, gender, age, disability, ethnicity, culture, religion and national or social origin or on any other grounds and with a view to progressively eliminating inequalities based on factors such as rural-urban disparities, residence in a slum, income levels and other relevant considerations; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the fact that, according to the 2012 Joint Monitoring Programme report of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Millennium Development Goal target relating to the reduction by 50 per cent of people without access to an improved water source was formally met five years before its deadline of 2015, while being deeply concerned, however, that, according to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Programme update, a large number of the world’s population still does not enjoy access to safe drinking water, as 748 million people, nearly half of them in sub-Saharan Africa, still lack access to improved drinking-water sources, and that at least 1.8 billion people are estimated to be using an improved or unimproved drinking water source that is unsafe, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2014, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that, according to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Programme update, more than 2.5 billion people still do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, including 1 billion people who still practice open defecation, and that the world remains off track to meet the sanitation component of Millennium Development Goal 7, which called for halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to an improved sanitation facility; and welcoming therefore the emphasis placed by States on the topic of sanitation, for instance in General Assembly resolution 65/1 of 22 September 2010, in which States committed to, inter alia, redouble efforts to close the sanitation gap through scaled-up ground-level action, and the proclamation of 19 November as World Toilet Day in the context of Sanitation for All, pursuant to Assembly resolution 67/291 of 24 July 2013, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The right to food 2015, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The right to food 2008, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalls general comment No. 15 (2002) of the Committee on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the Covenant), in which the Committee noted, inter alia, the importance of ensuring sustainable water resources for human consumption and agriculture in the realization of the right to adequate food; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation 2009, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that approximately 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and that over 2.5 billion do not have access to basic sanitation, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, to the maximum of their available resources, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2015, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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 right to safe drinking water and sanitation, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2011, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the recognition of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and the affirmation by the latter that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2011, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling further 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 2015, para. 33c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To achieve this, it is important:] To promote the resilience of new and existing critical infrastructure, including water, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, educational facilities, hospitals and other health facilities, to ensure that they remain safe, effective and operational during and after disasters in order to provide live-saving and essential services; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Right to food 2013, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalls 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 Covenant), in which the Committee noted, inter alia, the importance of ensuring sustainable access to water resources for human consumption and agriculture in realization of the right to adequate food; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling its resolution 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2013, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that approximately 768 million people still lack access to improved drinking water sources and that more than 2.5 billion do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, including more than 1.04 billion people who still practice open defecation, as defined by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in their 2013 update on the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, and that these figures do not fully capture the dimensions of water safety, the affordability of services and the safe management of excreta and wastewater, as well as equality, non-discrimination and differences between urban and rural areas, and therefore underestimate the numbers of those without access to safe drinking water and sanitation, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Third International Conference on Financing for Development: Addis Ababa Action Agenda 2015, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We further acknowledge that expenditures and investments in sustainable development are being devolved to the subnational level, which often lacks adequate technical and technological capacity, financing and support. We therefore commit to scaling up international cooperation to strengthen capacities of municipalities and other local authorities. We will support cities and local authorities of developing countries, particularly in least developed countries and small island developing States, in implementing resilient and environmentally sound infrastructure, including energy, transport, water and sanitation, and sustainable and resilient buildings using local materials. We will strive to support local governments in their efforts to mobilize revenues as appropriate. We will enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and strengthen economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning, within the context of national sustainable development strategies. We will work to strengthen debt management, and where appropriate to establish or strengthen municipal bond markets, to help subnational authorities to finance necessary investments. We will also promote lending from financial institutions and development banks, along with risk mitigation mechanisms, such as the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, while managing currency risk. In these efforts, we will encourage the participation of local communities in decisions affecting their communities, such as in improving drinking water and sanitation management. By 2020, we will increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters. We will develop and implement holistic disaster risk management at all levels in line with the Sendai Framework. In this regard, we will support national and local capacity for prevention, adaptation and mitigation of external shocks and risk management. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2015, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 2011, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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 its available resources, to achieve progressively the full realization of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures in the implementation of their human rights obligations; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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