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The Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

A/HRC/RES/60/9View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document 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 2025.

What else is in this group?

14 documents · 2012–2025
  • 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.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
ConferencesRight to Drinking WaterSanitationSpecial Rapporteurs

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, and takes note with appreciation of his reports;
2
Decides to extend the mandate of 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, on a biennial basis, to the General Assembly as of its eightieth session;
4
Also requests the Special Rapporteur, with a view to promoting the progressive realization of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation at the 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 and the 2028 United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, to actively engage in collaboration with States and other stakeholders, including the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, in the preparatory process to ensure that the human rights dimension, including gender equality, is adequately reflected in the agenda and outcome of the conferences, and to ensure broad and inclusive civil society representation, and to this end to participate actively in the conferences and their preparatory meetings;
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 continue 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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