Human Rights Council
Resolution 7/22.
Human rights and access to safe drinking water and
sanitation
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolution 6/8 of 28 September 2007 and decision 2/104 of
27 November 2006 on human rights and equitable access to safe drinking water and
sanitation,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of
15 March 2006,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the Council and 5/2 on
the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Council, of 18
June 2007, and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
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 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Recalling further relevant provisions of declarations and programmes with
regard to access to safe drinking water and sanitation adopted at major United Nations
conferences and summits and by the General Assembly at its special sessions and
their follow-up meetings, inter alia the Mar del Plata Action Plan on Water
Development and Administration, Agenda 21 adopted by the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development or the Habitat Agenda adopted by the
Habitat II conference,