A/HRC/RES/39/8 accessing sanitation facilities outside of their home or practising open defecation, to protect women’s and girls’ equal access to water and sanitation and to take positive measures to guarantee the availability and accessibility of these rights; (e) To address the widespread stigma and shame surrounding menstruation and menstrual hygiene by ensuring access to factual information thereon, addressing the negative social norms around the issue and ensuring universal access to hygienic products and gender-sensitive facilities, including disposal options for menstrual products; (f) To make efforts to mitigate the disproportionate impact of water-, sanitationand hygiene-related diseases on children and reduce child mortality, morbidity and stunting by ensuring the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation; (g) To consult and coordinate with local communities and other stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector, on adequate solutions to ensure sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation; (h) To provide for effective accountability mechanisms to ensure that all water and sanitation service providers, including private sector providers, respect human rights and do not cause or contribute to human rights violations or abuses; 9. Encourages all Governments to continue to respond favourably to requests by the Special Rapporteur for visits and information, to follow up effectively on the recommendations of the mandate holder and to make available information on measures taken in this regard; 10. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the resources and assistance necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate; 11. Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item at its forty-second session. 39th meeting 27 September 2018 [Adopted by a recorded vote of 44 to 1, with 2 abstentions. The voting was as follows: In favour: Angola, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Against: Kyrgyzstan Abstaining: Afghanistan, Ethiopia] 5