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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2019), para. 10
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- 4. Also requests the Special Rapporteur, in view of the tenth anniversary of General Assembly resolution 64/292 and Human Rights Council resolution 15/9 of 30 September 2010 recognizing the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, to initiate and participate in awareness-raising activities, including through social media and with the use of accessible materials, and in collaboration with States, to compile good practices at the local, national, regional and international levels in order to promote the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and to report thereon to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fifth session;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2005), para. 14
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- 4. Urges malaria-endemic countries to increase domestic resource allocation to malaria control;
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- Health
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 30
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- 9. Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system, international and development partners, as well as by donor agencies, in particular in the timely achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goals, and urges development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and implementing development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans of action related to the right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 27
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- (i) To provide for a regulatory framework aimed at ensuring that all water and sanitation service providers respect and protect human rights and do not cause human rights violations or abuses, and to ensure that national minimum standards, based on human rights criteria, are in place when water and sanitation services are decentralized, in order to ensure coherence and countrywide compliance with human rights;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources (2015), para. 04
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- Noting that in its report 1 the Open Working Group proposes a goal of ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2020), para. 33
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- 2. Recognizes that the human right to safe drinking water entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use, and that the human right to sanitation entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, that is safe, hygienic, secure, socially and culturally acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity, while reaffirming that both rights are components of the right to an adequate standard of living;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Sustainable mountain development (2014), para. 06
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- Acknowledging that, despite the progress that has been made in promoting sustainable development of mountain regions and conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, poverty, food insecurity, social exclusion and environmental degradation are still high, and access to safe and affordable drinking water and basic sanitation as well as to sustainable modern energy services continues to be limited,
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 076
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- 54. We support the Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge and recommend increasing sustainable and responsible investment, both domestic and international, in sustainable agriculture and food security, the sustainable use of water resources, including through international public and private cooperation in rural and urban infrastructure, nutrition, secure land tenure, agricultural research and extension services, access to markets and to finance, especially for smallholder farmers, building irrigation facilities, technology developme nt and transfer on mutually agreed terms, the promotion of resilient and sustainable agricultural practices and reducing food loss and waste. We reaffirm the commitment to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable d evelopment, and to increase the economic benefits to the least developed countries that are small island developing States and coastal countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through the sustainable management of fisheries, aquacu lture and tourism by 2030.
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (1997), para. 07
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- Aware of the additional, detrimental economic and social impact of the Israeli settlements on Palestinian and other Arab natural resources, especially the confiscation of land and the forced diversion of water resources,
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- Environment
- Water & Sanitation
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- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation for Ethiopia (2005), para. 15
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- 4. Welcomes the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, the international community and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to strengthen mechanisms already in place to respond to such emergency situations, appreciates their endeavours to increase the availability of food through the procurement of local produce and to ensure access of households in need to food, health and water facilities, sanitation, seeds and veterinary services, and strongly encourages the Government of Ethiopia to continue such efforts;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 33
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- (a) To identify, with a view to repealing and reforming them, all laws that have both direct and indirect discriminatory consequences with regard to the equal enjoyment of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and with regard to gender-based violence;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2020), para. 16
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- Affirming the importance of continually improving the availability of high - quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data on progress related to safe drinking water and sanitation services as an indispensable means for States to plan for, implement and monitor the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for all without discrimination,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2011), para. 12
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- 1. Welcomes the recognition of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and the affirmation by the latter that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity;
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- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013 (2011), para. 05
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- Emphasizing that water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human health and well-being and central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
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- Environment
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 69
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- 18. Recognizes that sustainable food systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition and preventing and controlling non-communicable diseases, and welcomes the formulation and implementation of internationally consistent national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms and transforming food systems so as to make nutritious diets available to all, while reaffirming that health, water and sanitation systems must be strengthened simultaneously to end malnutrition;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2005), para. 18
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- 5. Encourages Governments to participate, at the appropriate level, with representatives from the relevant departments and agencies in water, sanitation and human settlements, as well as finance, in the intergovernmental preparatory meeting and the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- N.A.
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015 (2013), para. 25
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- 8. Urges the international community to work in a spirit of cooperation towards effective, increased, harmonized, predictable and sustained bilateral and multilateral assistance and research to combat malaria, including support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to assist States, in particular malaria-endemic countries, to implement sound national plans, in particular health plans and sanitation plans, including malaria control strategies which may include evidence-based, cost-effective and context-appropriate environmental management solutions, and integrated management of childhood illnesses, in a sustained and equitable way that, inter alia, contributes to strengthening health system development approaches at the district level;
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- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2012), para. 17
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- 4. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, the comprehensive, transparent and inclusive consultations conducted with relevant and interested actors from all regions for her thematic reports and compilation of good practices, and the undertaking of country missions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2014), para. 09
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- Welcoming also the designation of 19 November as World Toilet Day, in the context of Sanitation for All, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 67/291 of 24 July 2013,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2018), para. 52
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- 13. Recognizes the need to increase the resilience and sustainability of food and agricultural production with regard to climate change in the context of the rising demand for crops, bearing in mind the importance of safeguarding food security and ending hunger and the particular vulnerabilities of food production systems to the adverse impacts of climate change, and encourages efforts at all levels to support climate-sensitive agricultural practices, including agroforestry, conservation agriculture, water management schemes, drought-and flood-resistant seeds and sustainable livestock management, and to establish and strengthen interfaces between scientists, decision makers, entrepreneurs and funders of science, technology and innovation, as well as measures to strengthen the resilience of those in vulnerable situations and of food systems, which can also have a wider positive impact, emphasizing adaptation to climate change as a major concern and objective for all farmers and food producers, especially small-scale producers;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Water & Sanitation
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- All
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2011), para. 29
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- 10. Stresses that improving access to productive resources and public investment in rural development are essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, including through the promotion of investments in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 04
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- Recalling General Assembly resolution 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which the Assembly recognized the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation as essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life and all other human rights,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013 (2013), para. 12
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- 2. Encourages all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and all other actors to take advantage of the Year and to continue to promote actions at all levels, including through international cooperation, as appropriate, aimed at the achievement of the internationally agreed water-related goals contained in Agenda 21, 4 the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the United Nations Millennium Declaration 10 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation 7 and the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”; 9
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- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to development (2000), para. 36
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- (a) The rights to food and clean water are fundamental human rights and their promotion constitutes a moral imperative both for national Governments and for the international community;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 22
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- Deeply concerned that non-existent or inadequate sanitation facilities and serious deficiencies in water management and wastewater treatme nt can negatively affect water provision and sustainable access to safe drinking water and that, according to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2017, over 80 per cent of the world’s wastewater, and over 95 per cent in some of the least developed countries, is released into the environment without treatment,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
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- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2014), para. 10
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- Recalling 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 as well as the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 71
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- 22. Recognizes that sustainable food systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition and preventing and controlling non-communicable diseases, and welcomes the formulation and implementation of national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms and transforming food systems so as to make nutritious diets, including traditional healthy diets, available to all, while reaffirming that health, water and sanitation systems must be strengthened simultaneously to end malnutrition;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (2012), para. 20
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- 7. Expresses deep concern at the negative impact of discrimination, marginalization and stigmatization on the full enjoyment of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Developing human resources for development (1998), para. 12
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- 2. Emphasizes that, in the development of human resources, an overall, well-conceived and integrated approach that mainstreams a gender perspective and takes into account the needs of all people should be adopted, incorporating such vital areas as population, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, housing, communications, education and training, and science and technology, as well as taking into account the need to create more opportunities for employment in an environment that guarantees political freedom, popular participation, respect for human rights, justice and equity, all of which are essential for enhancing human capacity to meet the challenge of development;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The law of transboundary aquifers (2019), para. 05
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- Recognizing that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 1 includes a goal on ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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