UN OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [to 19 December 2015]

UN OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [to 19 December 2015]
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Burundi crisis: Zeid calls for robust action by international community to avert another civil war
17 December 2015

Comment by High Commissioner Zeid on the CAR review report
17 December 2015

Right to sanitation, a distinct human right – Over 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation –
GENEVA (18 December 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to water and sanitation, Léo Heller, and the Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Waleed Sadi, today welcomed the explicit recognition of the ‘human right to sanitation’ as a distinct right, together with the ‘human right to safe drinking water’ by the UN General Assembly…