The Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

A/HRC/RES/42/5View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 2012–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/63/19

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/19	The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation	5,004	—Compare
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2023	A/RES/78/206	The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation	4,033	—Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Anniversaries Public Information Report Preparation Right to Drinking Water Sanitation Special Rapporteurs Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;²

²A/HRC/42/47 and Add.1–6.

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

Decides to continue its consideration of this matter.

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