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84.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the United Nations treatymonitoring bodies and regional human rights mechanisms:
(a)
Request that States provide information in their periodic reports on how
they address the comprehensive range of violations of the rights to water and
sanitation are addressed;
(b)
Ensure that complaints procedures are applied so as to ensure access to
justice, including both restorative and transformative remedies, for the
comprehensive range of violations of the rights to water and sanitation,
85.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that non-State actors comply with their
responsibility to respect human rights, that they be held accountable for human rights
abuses, allow for an independent investigation into allegations, establish complaint
mechanisms and proactively engage with the State to detect, and find solutions to
address existing and potential human rights abuses .
86.
The Special Rapporteur encourages civil society organizations to support
(strategic) litigation, in particular related to systemic and structural violations of the
rights to water and sanitation linked to the obligations to progressively realize human
rights, to use maximum available resources, to avoid unjustifiable retrogression, and
to achieve substantive equality, including through preventing and combating
stigmatization.
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