Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook for Activists

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External resources: HRBA and Water Governance Fast Facts - UNDP | Applying a HRBA to Developing Cooperation and Programming (UNDP, 2006) | COHRE Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation | Protocol on Water and Health - Full Document) | COHRE Monitoring Implementation of the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators | Sub-commission guidelines for the realisation of the right to drinking water and sanitation (2005) | UNFPA - A HRBA to Programming, Practical Implementation Manual and Training Materials (2010) | Operational Guidelines for Implementing a Rights-Based Approach in Water and Sanitation Programming (CoHRE,2008) | COHRE Monitoring Implementation of the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators | FAQs on a HRBA to Development Cooperation | The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development - The Right to Water | UN Independent Expert Report on the issue of human rights obligations related to water and sanitation 2009 | UN Independent Expert Report on MDGs and right to water and sanitation 2010
Websites: The Rights to Water and Sanitation Information Portal | UN Independent Expert on Right to Water and Sanitation Webpage

Publication Title	Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook for Activists - Using a Human-Rights Based Approach for Advocacy on Access To Water and Sanitation
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Author(s)	Freshwater Action Network
Publication Date	2010
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Publication URL	http://www.wsscc.org/sites/default/files/publications/fansa_humanrightsactivisthandbook_2010.pdf
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Contents 1 Summary 2 References 3 See also 4 External Resources 5 Attachments

Summary

This handbook helps civil society and those working on water and sanitation to adopt a human rights-based approach to improve water and sanitation service regulation and provision at international, national, and local levels. The human right to water and sanitation obligates governments as duty bearers. But civil society can play a fundamental role in holding their governments to account; so it should be involved in all levels. This handbook is therefore a great introduction to advocacy processes and how to influence decision makers.

References

See also

1. UN Resolution 64/292 The Right to Water and Sanitation
2. UN General Assembly Recognises Access to Clean Water as a Basic Human Right
3. The Right to Water
4. The Implementation of the Right to Water in Central and Eastern Europe
5. Defining and Defending the Right to Water and its Minimum Core
6. Report of the UN Independent expert on the MDGs and Right to Water and Sanitation(2010)
7. Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
8. A UN Convention on the Right to Water - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
9. The Right to Water/publications
10. The Right to Water/projects
11. The Right to Water/articles
12. Water as a Human Right?
13. Women, water and access: grounded reflections on the right to water and sanitation
14. Water Supply Issues in Kosovo - OSCE 2008 Report
15. UN Independent Expert Report on Human Rights Obligations Related to Non-State Service Provision in Water and Sanitation
16. The right to water from a political ecology perspective: the case of Zimbabwe's water reforms
17. The Rights to Water and Sanitation in Regional Law
18. The Rights to Water and Sanitation in National Law
19. The Rights to Water and Sanitation in International Law
20. The Rights to Water and Sanitation Information Portal
21. The Right to Water - WHO Publication
22. The Right to Water - From Concept to Implementation
23. Kosovo/sector assessment
24. Tajikistan/sector assessment

External Resources

Attachments

 RTWSHandbookForActivists.pdf