A/RES/80/216 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 December 2025 Eightieth session Agenda item 71 (b) Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2025 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/80/545, para. 5)] 80/216. The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling its resolutions 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, and 78/206 of 19 December 2023, entitled “The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation”, Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolution 57/13 of 10 October 2024, 1 Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 4 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/79/53/Add.1), chap. III, sect. A. 2 Resolution 217 A (III). 3 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 4 Ibid. 5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464. 25-20968 (E) *2520968*