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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.
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