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FrançaisClimatic changes across the Middle East and north and eastern parts of Africa are threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people who depend on farming and herding to survive. However, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, irregular and inadequate rain fall is only part of the farmers’ and herders’ problem.
Joint Parallel Report: Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory By the Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene g
EWASH and Al-Haq respectfully submit this Parallel Report to bring to the attention of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Committee) Israel‟s lack of compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Covenant) in regard to the human rights to water and sanitation. The limitations of this report should not be understood to imply that Israel complies or does not comply with articles of the Covenant which are not mentioned here.
About Forum
“Water is a public property, not for monopoly; it is a human right and governments must guarantee its provision for all citizens fairly.”
The Forum works on ensuring citizens’ rights to equal, adequate and just access to water. It sees resistance of the privatization programs, with all its impacts on the right to water; the accessibility, quality and quantity, particularly for the impoverished and marginalized people. This is based on the fact that “Water is a Right not to be merchandized”.
objectives:
Fact Sheet on the right to water
صورة:
Water is the essence of life. Safe drinking water and sanitation are indispensable to sustain life and health, and fundamental to the dignity of all. Yet, 884 million people do not have access to improved sources of drinking water, while 2.5 billion lack access to improved sanitation facilities.1 While these numbers shed light on a worrying situation, the reality is much worse, as millions of poor people living in informal settlements are simply missing from national statistics.
RESOLUTION ON THE RECOGNITION OF THE RIGHT TO DRINKING WATER IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
RESOLUTION ON THE RECOGNITION OF
THE RIGHT TO DRINKING WATER
IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
(adopted on 17th January 2004)
The European Council on Environmental Law,
Recalling its previous work in the area of water resource management and, in particular, the Madeira Declaration on the Sustainable Management of Water (1999) and the Resolution on the Right to Water (2000);
DRAFT Resolution Drinking Water, Sanitation and Health
FRANCE
22 December 2010
DRAFT Resolution
Drinking Water, Sanitation and Health
The Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly,
PP1. Having considered the Report EB127/6 on Strategies for the safe management of drinking water for human consumption;
First Announcement and Call for Proposals
Introduction
After the ninth World Social Forum (WSF) - Belem, Brazil – 2009, Morocco has hosted the organizing meetings of the International Council of the WSF. The meetings were held in Harhoura, Rabat and accommodated more than 200 activists representing civil society organizations and social movements from 30 countries from the Western and Eastern Arab region, Africa and Americas.
During the organizing meetings in Morocco, the following commitments were concluded:
Open letter supporting the resolution entitled “The human right to water and sanitation”
22 June 2010
We are nongovernmental organizations whose members come from all parts
of the world and for most of our members access to safe drinking water and
sanitation are major concerns. We affirm the presentation of the draft
resolution entitled “The human right to water and sanitation” that is
currently under consideration before members of the General Assembly. We
strongly urge you to support this resolution.
We believe that it is critical that this resolution be put forward as a
firm affirmation that the right to safe drinking water and sanitation is
Summary of General Comment No. 15
General Comment No. 15 on the Right to Water was adopted by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its twenty-ninth session in November 2002 (UN Doc. E/C.12/2002/11). The Comment provides guidelines for States Parties on the interpretation of the right to water under two articles of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Article 11 (the right to an adequate standard of living) and Article 12 (the right to health).
Part I: Introduction
In its introduction, General Comment 15 affirms that: