A/HRC/RES/27/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 October 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
27/7
The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, inter
alia, resolutions 7/22 of 28 March 2008, 12/8 of 1 October 2009, 15/9 of 30 September
2010, 16/2 of 24 March 2011, 18/1 of 28 September 2011, 21/2 of 27 September 2012 and
24/18 of 27 September 2013,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which the
Assembly 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, as well as
resolution 68/157 of 18 December 2013, in which the Assembly reaffirmed by consensus
the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation,
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,
Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which reaffirms
that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, including
the right to development,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 25/11 of 27 March 2014 on the question
of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights, in which the
Council underlined the importance of an effective remedy for violations of economic, social
and cultural rights,
Reaffirming the commitment to human rights as expressed in General Assembly
resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, entitled “United Nations Millennium Declaration”,
GE.14-17787 (E)