|
|
Manila
|
Resources and Articles
What is available in the COHRE online Library?
"Legal Resources for the Right to Water"
An extensive compilation of international and national legal provisions and case law that protect the human right to water.
This publication is part of COHRE's Sources Series (No 8) and is available free for download from the COHRE online library. Find it at the top of the Sources Page of the Library.
The draft 2nd Edition of Legal Resources for the Right to Water and Sanitation is now available at www.cohre.org/legalresources
See below for other COHRE Publications on the Right to Water as well as articles, links and policy papers.
|
|
|
|
| Key Publications COHRE Right to Water Programme |
COHRE PUBLICATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND MDGS (2009)
This publication analyses MDG-based policies and sector strategies from five countries (Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Laos) identifying current trends and any critical gaps. It reviews the extent to which such policies are consistent with human rights principles, are conflicting or fail to reflect human rights principles. It also shows how gaps in MDG-based policy making can be usefully filled by more explicit and systematic consideration of human rights standards.
 download pdf [en]
Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation (2007)
Description, executive summary and full version of the Manual available at: www.cohre.org/manualrtws
Sanitation: a human rights imperative (2008)
Description, executive summary and full version of "Sanitation: a human rights imperative" available at: www.cohre.org/sanitation
National and International Standards on the Right to Water and Sanitation (2009)
Fully revised, restructured and extended 2nd edition of "Legal Resources for the Right to Water: International and National Standards(Sources 8, 2004)". Available in February 2009 at www.cohre.org/legalresources.
The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Legal basis, practical rationale and definition
This position paper addresses the legal basis and practical rationale for the right to water AND sanitation and defines the scope of the right.
download pdf [en]
Spanish language versions available at: www.cohre.org/agua
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Key Right to Water Programme Country Reports |
Enforcing the human right to water - Lessons learnt from working with the Conet community in La Matanza
download pdf [en]
Four case studies on efforts to implement rights-based approaches to urban water and sanitation services
Brazil - Kenya - South Africa - Sri Lanka
download pdf [en]
A efetivação do direito à água e ao saneamento no Brasil
Uma análise do marco jurídico e das políticas públicascom base em uma perspectiva de direitos humanos
download pdf [pt]
Policies of denial: Lack of access to water in the West Bank
download pdf [en]
Hostage to Politics: The impact of sanctions and the blockade on the human right to water and sanitation in Gaza
download pdf [en]
The Right to Water and Sanitation in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
An Action Research Report
download pdf [en]
Rapid assessment of the water and sanitation situation within informal settlements in Nairobi
download pdf [en]
Water Services Fault Lines
An Assessment of South Africa’s Water and Sanitation Provision across 15 Municipalities
download pdf [en]
A. Khalfan and S. Conteh, ‘Big leap forward for the right of access to water in South Africa’
(9:2) ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, June 2008, p. 12-14
download pdf [en]
A rights-based review of the legal and policy framework of the Ghanaian water and sanitation sector
download pdf [en]
Entrance points for rights-based approaches to water and sanitation in the law and policy of Lao PDR
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Operational Guidelines for Implementing Rights Based Approaches to Water and |
Operational Guidelines for Implementing Rights Based Approaches to Water and
Sanitation Programming
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Monitoring the Right to Water: A Framework for Developing Indicators |
This policy paper, prepared by COHRE staff; Virginia Roaf, Ashfaq Khalfan and Malcolm Langford sets outs the options for human rights indicators for the right to water and sanitation, and provides a draft set of indicators. This policy paper is available for download below.
It is based on a seminar that included key UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations and is a joint initiative with the Heinrich Boll Foundation and Bread for the World. Work continues in order to refine the indicators and to screen them for feasibility of data collection. Feedback is invited on the policy paper at water@cohre.org.
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Other publications |
"The Human Right to Water and Sanitation – Benefits and Limitations"
by Thorsten Kiefer and Virginia Roaf, in UNESCO Etxea, The Human Right to Water – Current Situation and Future Challenges (Icaria editorial, 2008), pp. 127-150.
download pdf [en]
Clean Water for the Poor. Making the Human Right to Water a reality (2005)
This 4-page background paper introduces the importance of the right, the value of a rights-based approach, the main components of the right and the Do’s and Don’ts of the Right to Water.
download pdf [en]
"The Right-Based Approach to Water Governance: Rhetoric or Real Contribution?"
by Ashfaq Khalfan, Coordinator, Right to Water Programme, Bellagio Forum on Sustainable Development (BFSD) Magazine, June 2004.
download pdf [en]
The Right to Water (2003)
Joint publication by WHO, OHCHR, COHRE, Water Aid, and CESR
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Key United Nations Documents on the Right to Water and Sanitation |
Guidelines for the Realisation of the Right to Drinking Water and Sanitation - UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (2006)
download pdf [en]
Sub-Commission Resolution adopting the Guidelines (2006)
 download doc [en]
Final Report (2004) of the Special Rapportuer on the Promotion of the Right to Drinking Water and Sanitation- UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
download pdf [en]
General Comment 15: The Right to Water (2002) – UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
download pdf [en] download doc [en]
UN Human Rights Council decision (2006) on Human Rights and Access to Water
download doc [en]
OHCHR Report on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation (2007)
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
More information?
|
|
Related Links |
www.righttowater.org.uk - A useful resource for information on the right to water ( Link )
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights main page on human rights and access to water ( Link )
UUSC's Environmental Justice Program - a detailed bibliography of right to water-related material. ( Link )
|
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| Resource Pack for Training: Advocacy for the Right to Water and Sanitation |
This document is intended for training purposes. It covers the value-added of the right to water, its basis in international law, an overview of the content of the right, a select bibliography and a set of ‘scenarios’ and guiding questions. This document will be revised based on comment.
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
| The Mar del Plata Action Plan, adopted at the 1977 UN Water Conference held at Mar del Plata, Argentina |
Scan of the key sections of the Mar del Plata Action Plan, Part 1:
download pdf [en]
Scan of the key sections of the Mar del Plata Action Plan, Part 2:
download pdf [en]
Scan of the key sections of the Mar del Plata Action Plan, Part 3:
download pdf [en]
|
Top of Page | Page Contents
|
|
