A/HRC/27/55 emphasis on those areas which have been most neglected. She recommends that States: (a) Recognize the full range of violations of the rights to water and sanitation and ensure access to justice for all such violations; (b) Ensure that a comprehensive human rights framework is embedded in legislation, policy and practice with the aim of both preventing and remedying violations; (c) Ensure that international law and jurisprudence on the rights to water and sanitation are used in interpreting and applying domestic legislation, regulations and policies; (d) Ensure that the rights to water and sanitation are taken account of in administrative decisions interpreting legislation and exercising any discretion conferred by relevant legislation; (e) Raise awareness on economic, social and cultural rights and the human rights to water and sanitation in particular so that individuals know their rights and will be able to claim them in the case of violations; (f) Ensure that victims of violations are entitled to adequate reparation, including restitution, compensation, satisfaction or guarantees of non-repetition, and that the legislative framework requires courts to provide both restorative and transformative remedies; (g) Ensure that judges, prosecutors and decision-makers have adequate human rights education and training, including on economic, social and cultural rights, by making training on those rights part of law school curricula and providing ongoing training; (h) Ensure that individuals and groups do not face barriers in access to justice, whether economic, physical, linguistic, cultural or other, and take measures to overcome such barriers, including by means of legal aid; (i) Ensure that national human rights institutions and other relevant bodies have an explicit mandate to: (i) identify and address violations of the rights to water and sanitation, adopting a comprehensive approach; (ii) receive complaints of violations of rights to water and sanitation; and (iii) require remedial and transformative action on violations of the rights to water and sanitation; (j) Provide comprehensive information in their periodic reports to treatymonitoring bodies, the universal periodic review process and relevant regional mechanisms for the prevention of violations of the human rights to water and sanitation; (k) Ratify or otherwise accept all optional communications procedures, including the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights , the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women , and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including their inquiry mechanisms; (l) Ensure that civil society organizations working to address violations of the rights to water and sanitation are properly resourced, have access to relevant information and can participate in decision-making processes. 24

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