Publications

Sanitation: A human rights imperative

August 2008

COHRE, WaterAid, UN-HABITAT and Swiss Agency for Development and Coperation (SDC)  have published a booklet which addresses the benefit of treating sanitation in human rights terms,  the legal basis of the right to sanitation,  state obligations and standards for differing environments, and priority actions for governments and other stakeholders.

Download the publication in English, French or Spanish 

           
The Right to Water – a step in the right direction

Danielle Morley, FAN Executive Secretary, spoke at an International Conference on the Right to Water organised by the UN High Commission for Human Rights and the German Foreign Office which aims to foster an ongoing debate on the Human Right to Water

       

Research tool on the right to water

A bibliography of primary and secondary sources of law on the human right to water compiled by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).

 

       

Right to water and access to water: an assessment

Journal of International Development, 2007.
This paper analyses challenges to putting the right
to water into practice.

           
Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation 
Addresses issues common to most economic, social and cultural rights, including how to operationalise the requirements of non-discrimination and attention to vulnerable and marginalised groups, participation, international cooperation and affordability within government programmes.