A/RES/78/206
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth 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 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.2, para. 139)]
78/206.
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 76/153 of 16 December 2021,
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 51/19
of 6 October 2022, 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
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23-26025 (E)
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/77/53/Add.1), chap. III, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
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