A/HRC/22/24
(a)
In Nepal, the Nepal Sanitation and Hygiene Master Plan (2011) helps secure
access for people living below the poverty line, families of single women as well and
marginalized communities;
(b)
In Malawi, the Centre for Community Organisation and Development is
working with the Malawi Homeless Peoples Federation, a network of women-led savings
groups for people living in informal settlements, to assist households in accessing small
loans from a revolving fund to construct both household-level and public composting
latrines. Similar initiatives are taking place in the United Republic of Tanzania and
Zimbabwe;
(c)
Inpart Waterworks and Development Company (IWADCO), a construction
company based in Manila, Philippines, also identified a crucial need of water services in
slums. It introduces the options available to local communities through awareness-raising
programmes and involves them in project design, construction and management. Local
community members, generally women and those who lack other income, are chosen to
manage the water supply with support from IWADCO.
B.
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences
37.
In her report on the political economy of women’s human rights of May 2009
(A/HRC/11/6), the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences, dedicates an entire section to economic and social rights and stresses that
(p. 2):
Unless women’s agency is recognized and their capabilities supported through
social, economic and political empowerment the human rights they are promised
will remain abstract concepts. This report identifies how the economic and social
rights inherent in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are directly linked to
women’s socio-economic security and their capacity to assert their will and resist
violence.
38.
Furthermore, in her report on reparations to women who have been subjected to
violence of April 2010 (A/HRC/14/22, paras. 51–54), she includes access to some
economic and social rights as reparation. The Special Rapporteur’s report on multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women of May 2011
(A/HRC/17/26) suggests a holistic approach to recognizing women’s rights to be free from
discrimination and violence.
C.
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
39.
The former Special Rapporteur on the right to education submitted a report to the
General Assembly on the human right to sexual education in 2010 (A/65/162). In the
report, the former Special Rapporteur places the right to sexual education in the context of
patriarchy and control of sexuality. He explains the interdependence of sexuality, health
and education and the relationship of this right to other rights from a gender and diversity
perspective. In this report, he concluded that (para. 77):
The right to sexual education is particularly important to women’s and girls’
empowerment and to ensuring that they enjoy their human rights. It is therefore one
of the best tools for dealing with the consequences of the system of patriarchal
domination by changing social and cultural patterns of behaviour that affect men and
women and tend to perpetuate discrimination and violence against women.
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