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 […]
Partnership with Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Marsabit County Action Plan for the Realisation of the Rights to Water and Sanitation The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and HR2W partnered on this Leave No One Behind project to develop human right indicators for the realisation of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. The process […]
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 […]
Leave No One Behind Assessment ToolKit
Vulnerable people are the most excluded from access to safe water and sanitation, and the lack of recognition of this fact creates the main stumbling block for States to realise their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Human Right 2 Water launches a revolutionary assessment tool to support governments to assess how […]
