Water and Rights

Established in 2007, the Cluster Group on Water and Rights explores how human rights can help improve access to water and sanitation.

The Cluster Group gathers different perspectives, raises awareness, exchanges experience and draws on international lessons learned about challenges related to implementing the right to water and sanitation in practice.

The Group promotes a constructive dialogue on what the right to water entails for Swedish and international actors.

See more information on how you can get involved. 

Resources

• General Comment No. 15 of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Sub-Commission's Guidelines for the Realization of the Right to Drinking Water and Sanitation adopted by the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, August 2006
• OHCHR, WHO, COHRE, CESR, Water Aid, The Right to Water, 2003
• OHCHR Report on the scope and content of the relevant human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments
• UNDP, Human Development Report 2006: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
• COHRE, Manual on Right to Water
• COHRE, Sanitation a Human Rights Imperative
Emilie Filmer-Wilson, The Human Rights Based Approach to Development - The Right to Water, Netherlands Human Rights Quarterly, 2005