UN-Water Groundwater Summit, UNESCO Paris, 6th December 2022, Side Event Groundwater and the right to a healthy environment: improving water security in humanitarian crises Groundwater is central to the right to a healthy environment and the right to clean drinking water, but the understanding of groundwater resources is often overlooked […]
Chad: Country Assessment
Affordability to water as a human right is recognised in the national legal framework in Chad. This was discovered in the legal assessment conducted by Human Right 2 Water to determine how the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS) and the human right to a clean and healthy environment […]
UNECE’s Digital Transformation Panel
1st December 2022 Human Right 2 Water participated in the Sixth Session of UNECE’s Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). This panel was designed to spark a conversation between experts on: How can the Public-Private Partnerships lifecycle be improved to deliver PPP projects in support of the SDGS? The session […]
Strengthening accountability mechanisms to ensure the human right to water
In July of 2010, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed Resolution 64/29, which “recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation (WASH) are essential to the realization of all human rights.” In a subsequent resolution, the UNGA assigned governments responsibility over […]
Groundwater and the right to a healthy environment
UN Water Groundwater Summit Side Event Groundwater and the right to a healthy environment: improving water security in humanitarian crises Human Right 2 Water along with Action contre la Faim and Deltares, are hosting a side event at the UN Water Groundwater Summit on the 6th of December in Paris. […]
Citizen Science in Costa Rica
The Suwo’di organization and UNESCO, Costa Rica, hosted a webinar on Citizen Science on 10th November, to bring together local experts and enthusiasts that are working on this theme. Isabella Cubillo, the new Communications Officer from Human Right 2 Water, joined in with a presentation on a social engagement app […]
World Toilet Day Event
Today’s webinar event to celebrate World Toilet Day was hosted by IWRA. The title ‘Managing Sanitation Systems to protect Groundwater’ was designed to trigger discussion around the global challenges for managing sanitation waste, and the impacts on groundwater. The speakers were introduced by Lindsey Blodgett from IWRA (international Water Resources […]
Transboundary Water RDI Cooperation in SADC
REGISTER interest for this workshop on 17th November by emailing comms@humanright2water.org. The Aim of this strategic workshop is to strengthen cooperation in the field of research, development, and innovation (RDI) in support of improved water security and universal access to water across SADC. The workshop aims to bring together […]
Strengthening Water Quality Research, Development and Innovation among IORA Member States
Water Quality refers to the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of water, based on the intended standard of its intended use such as drinking, swimming, washing, etc. The water quality of a system or particular area can be determined by the local geology, ecosystem as well as interactions such as […]
2nd AGM for HR2W
Human Right 2 Water held it’s second AGM this week on 13th July 2022. It marks the two year anniversary of the Constitutional AGM, held on 6th May 2020, in the middle of the global pandemic.. It was gratifying to see that our members turned out in force with over […]
