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2006/10. Promotion of the realization of the right to drinking
water and sanitation
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Reaffirming the indivisibility, interdependence and interrelated nature of economic, social
and cultural rights and civil and political rights,
Mindful that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a wide range of other texts provide unequivocally that
all persons are entitled to the full realization of economic, social and cultural rights,
Recalling the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Recalling also that in part I, paragraph 10, of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, the World Conference on Human Rights reaffirmed the right to development as a
universal and inalienable right and an integral part of human rights, and urged States and the
international community to promote effective international cooperation for the realization of the
right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development,
Taking account of the results of the World Summit for Social Development, held in
Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995, especially the recommendations in its Programme of
Action concerning the United Nations system to strengthen United Nations operational activities
for development in order to ensure the implementation of the World Summit outcome, as well as
the capacity of the United Nations system for gathering and analysing information and
establishing indicators of social development, taking into account the work carried out by
different countries, in particular by developing countries,
Recalling resolutions I (Assessment of water resources), II (Community water supply),
III (Agricultural water use), IV (Research and development of industrial technologies),
VIII (Institutional arrangements for international cooperation in the water sector) and
IX (Financing arrangements for international cooperation in the water sector) adopted at the
United Nations Water Conference, held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from 14 to 25 March 1997,
Bearing in mind the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade
(1981-1990) and the observance, on 22 March of each year, of the World Day for Water,
proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 35/18 of 10 November 1980 and 47/193
of 22 December 1992, respectively,
Bearing in mind also the objectives of a “20:20”-type compact concerning in particular
the access of all to drinking water supply and sanitation services, as stated in the Human
Development Report 1994,
Recalling the Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and
Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, adopted in London in 1999 under
the auspices of the Economic Commission for Europe, and which refers to the principle of
equitable access to water, which should be provided for all members of the population,
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