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The Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

A/HRC/RES/42/5View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2019.

What else is in this group?

14 documents · 2012–2025
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).
  • 2025A/RES/80/216The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitationCompare with earlier document
  • 2025A/HRC/RES/60/9The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitationCompare with earlier document
  • 2024A/HRC/RES/57/13The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitationCompare with earlier document
  • 2023A/RES/78/206The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitationCompare with earlier document
  • 2022A/RES/76/153The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitationCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
AnniversariesPublic InformationReport PreparationRight to Drinking WaterSanitationSpecial RapporteursTechnical Cooperation

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
2
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation for a period of three years;
3
Requests the Special Rapporteur to continue to report, on an annual basis, to the Human Rights Council and to submit an annual report to the General Assembly;
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;
5
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of the implementation of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
6
Encourages all Governments to respond favourably to requests by the Special Rapporteur for visits and information, to follow up effectively on the recommendations of the mandate holder and to make available information on measures taken in this regard;
7
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the resources and assistance necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate;
8
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter.

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