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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Discrimination against Women, 6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8
Recalling also that the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation are
derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and are inextricably related
to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and ment al health, as well
as to the right to life and human dignity,
Reaffirming that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full
realization of all human rights and to take steps, individually and through
international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical
cooperation, to the maximum of their available resources, to progressively achieve
the full realization of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate
means, including, in particular, the adoption of legislative measures for the
implementation of their human rights obligations,
Noting 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 and taking note of the reports
of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the human rights to safe
drinking water and sanitation,
Taking note of The United Nations World Water Development Report 2022:
Groundwater – Making the Invisible Visible and Blueprint for Acceleration:
Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation 2023 ,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to ensure the promotion and protection
of and respect for all human rights, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent
and interrelated, and must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development 11 and outcome documents of review conferences,
reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 12 the outcome
documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly 13 and the
declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of
the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries of the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 14 and taking note of the agreed conclusions of the sixty-sixth
session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 15
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Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22),
annex IV.
Ibid., 2011, Supplement No. 2 (E/2011/22), annex VI.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, re solution 1, annex.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and
corrigendum (E/2005/27 and E/2005/27/Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7
and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap I, sect. A; ibid., 2015, Supplement
No. 7 (E/2015/27), chap. I, sect. C, resolution 59/1, annex; and ibid., 2020, Supplement No. 7
(E/2020/27), chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., 2022, Supplement No. 7 (E/2022/27), chap. I, sect. A.
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