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Title: Access to safe drinking water a human right
Author: UN Human Rights Council
Category: Ecology
Date: 9/24/2010
Source: UN Human Rights Council Document A/HRC/15/L.14
Source Website: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org <http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/>
African Charter Article# 2: Everyone shall enjoy these rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind.
Summary & Comment: Adopted in consensus, this resolution by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva affirms “that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity”. AB
United Nations General Assembly
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G10/163/09/PDF/G1016309.pdf?
Human Rights Council Fifteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
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