Right to water & sanitation
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Testing the Water: Using Opera to Assess How the Right to Water in India Is Protected in a Changing Climate
How can activists expose the effects of government policies on people's rights? In this guest blog, Harvard law student Laura Bach details her experience using our OPERA Framework to explore how the right to water is guaranteed in India.
At HLPF, CESR's Mihir Mankad Calls for a Green, Rights-Based COVID Recovery
Speaking on a panel at the 2020 HLPF in July, Mihir Mankad said human rights must guide a just and green economic recovery to COVID.
Reducing inequalities through urgent action on WASH: SDG6 as an enabler for achieving the 2030 Agenda for all
"Reducing Inequalities through urgent action on WASH," an HLPF side-event co-sponsored by CESR, WaterAid, Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the governments of Bolivia, Canada, Mozambique and Nepal, will be held on Tuesday, July 10th, 2018, from 1:15-3:30 p.m., at the Japan Society, 333 E 47th Street, New York.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Egypt: Widespread rights retrogression exposed before UPR
The 11 briefing papers in this series were prepared by CESR and the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
Syria: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's UPR
CESR's joint submission with the Arab NGO Network for the 12th session of the Universal Periodic Review, October 2011.
Equatorial Guinea Factsheet
This 2009 factsheet focuses on the rights to health, education, water and sanitation.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Iraq: Water under seige
From April 2003, this report examines the lack of safe water in Iraq caused by the war.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Thirsting for Justice
This 2003 report exposes the ways in which Israel has taken complete control of shared Palestinian-Israeli water sources.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Ghana: Privatization and Water Sector Reform in Ghana
CESR and its allies conducted a fact-finding mission to examine impacts of the privatization of water in Ghana.
The Right to Water in Palestine: a Background
The Israeli confiscation and control of Palestinian water resources is a defining feature of the Israeli occupation and a major impediment to resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.