Costa Rica has implemented a number of treaties and domestic legislation for good water governance in the country. This legal analysis was developed by HR2W Legal Expert, Kay Windle.
World Environment Day
Today, 5th of June, we celebrate World Environment Day! In recent years, awareness of the connections between human rights and the environment has significantly risen. In October 2021, through the adoption of Resolution 48/13 (A/HRC/RES/48/13), the Human Rights Council first recognized the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable […]
Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Health,Environment and Governance Challenges
Sustainable Sanitation Systems: Health,Environment and Governance Challenges This report aims to highlight some existing sanitation system alternatives (e.g. ecological sanitation) to conventional (centralised) sewerbased sanitation systems; but also to point out the necessity to consider (international) water quality guidelines, environmental and health protection, as well as human rights-based legislation and […]
