Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 19
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- Violations through direct interference are often addressed by national courts interpreting domestic law in line with international human rights law. The Court of Appeal of Botswana, for example, relied on the right to water as set out in general comment No. 15 and the General Assembly resolution on the right to water and sanitation to interpret constitutional provisions. It found that preventing a community of Bushmen from accessing their traditional boreholes amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. In the context of informal settlements in Argentina, a court found that a discontinuation of water supplied with tanker trucks violated the rights to "a healthy environment and dignified housing", ordering the resumption of water provision. The court also ordered the progressive improvement of the water distribution system, thereby demonstrating that violations of the obligation to respect are often linked to violations of obligations to fulfil. The Human Rights Committee found that Bulgaria had violated the right to home and family, as well as the rights to life and non-discrimination, by allowing the Municipality of Sofia to disconnect the water supply to a Roma community. The Committee requested Bulgaria to issue interim measures requiring the authorities to reconnect the water supply.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Année
- 2014
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 19
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