The Rights to Water and Sanitation in International Law

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Websites: The Rights to Water and Sanitation Information Portal | UN Independent Expert on Right to Water and Sanitation Webpage

The timeline below portrays the development of the rights to water and sanitation in international human rights and humanitarian law. International law provides the overwhelmingly legal framework for recognition and enforcement of the rights to water and sanitation, as states are ultimately accountable to the international community for their efforts to secure these rights. The law provides both a means of protection of human rights and a route of redress in cases where state's fail to fulfil their obligations under international law.

Contents 1 The Right to Water and Sanitation: Timeline of International Law 2 References 3 See also 4 External Resources 5 Attachments

The Right to Water and Sanitation: Timeline of International Law

• September 2010 - United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation

• July 2010 - United Nations General Assembly resolution on the right to water and sanitation

• 2009 - Report of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation (2009)

• September 2008 - Catarina de Albuquerque is appointed as the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation

• March 2008 - Human Rights Council Resolution on Human Rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation

• 2007 - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the scope and content of the relevant human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments

• 2006 - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - Article 28

• 2002 - General Comment No. 15 - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - is itself not legally binding, but is an authoritative interpretation of the ICESCR which is binding on State's who have ratified or acceded to it.

• 1999 - Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and Lakes

• 1989 - Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - Article 24

• 1979 - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) - Article 14(2)

• 1966 - International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - implicitly recognises the right to water in Articles 11 the right to an adequate standard of living & Article 12 right to the highest attainable standard of health

• 1966 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• 1949 - Geneva Conventions

• 1948 - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

References

See also

HRBA

A Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to Improve Water Governance in Europe & CIS

The Rights to Water and Sanitation in Regional Law

The Rights to Water and Sanitation in National Law

External Resources

Attachments