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. 11

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