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A key aim of this publication is to share information about the legal enforcement of the human rights to water and sanitation. As such, it is a useful tool for judges, lawyers and those advocating for these rights, and should prove essential for crafting legal complaints that better ensure accountability for violations of the rights to water and sanitation and achieving effective remedies for those suffering such violations.
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The cases examined in this publication provide real-world examples that
demonstrate how the human rights to water and sanitation can be legally
enforced before judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. They cover examples of
legal enforcement of the range of human-rights obligations, including the
obligations to respect, to protect and to fulfill the rights to water and
sanitation and to do so without discrimination. Cases involve direct
application of rights to water and sanitation at the national level; the use of
internationally recognized norms to inform rights at the national level; how to
use the principle of indivisibility and interrelatedness of rights to enforce
implicit rights to water and sanitation; and how regional and international
mechanisms have enforced such rights when domestic remedies are not available
or are insufficient.
Furthermore, cases illustrate not only how individuals and groups can use the
law and legal enforcement mechanisms to successfully achieve accountability and
remedies, but also how those representing larger classes of persons are
challenging the impacts of laws, policies and practices on the rights to water
and sanitation, and how they can achieve remedies at the more structural and
systemic levels.
The publication was prepared jointly by WaterLex and WASH United. Léo Heller,
the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking
water and sanitation, and his predecessor Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque have
endorsed the publication.