A/RES/80/216 The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation Discrimination against Women, 6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8 Recalling also 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, Reaffirming the responsibility of States to ensure the promotion and protection of and respect for 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, Reaffirming also that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical cooperation, to the maximum of their available resources, to progressively achieve the full realization of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including, in particular, the adoption of legislative measures for the implementation of their human rights obligations, Noting 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) 9 and the statement on the right to sanitation of the Committee of 19 November 2010, 10 and taking note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Taking note of The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025: Mountains and Glaciers – Water Towers and the summary brief “Mid-term status of SDG 6 global indicators and acceleration needs” from August 2024, Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 11 and outcome documents of review conferences, reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 12 the outcome documents of the twentythird special session of the General Assembly 13 and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth and thirtieth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 14 and taking note of the agreed conclusions of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 15 Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, for the achievement of _______________ 6 Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531. 8 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910. 9 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV. 10 Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 2 (E/2011/22), annex VI. 11 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 12 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 13 Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. 14 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap I, sect. A; ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. C, resolution 59/1, annex; ibid., 2020, Supplement No. 7 (E/2020/27), chap. I, sect. A; and ibid., 2025, Supplement No. 7 (E/2025/27), chap. I, sect. C. 15 Ibid., 2024, Supplement No. 7 (E/2024/27), chap. I, sect. A. 7 2/9 25-20968