Water
Legal Resources for the Right to Water
Center on Housing Rights and Evictions, Geneva, 2004.
Financing of Fresh Water for All: A Rights Based Approach
Ashok Nigam and Sadig Rasheed. Staff Working Paper. UNICEF, June 1998.
Privatisation versus Human Rights: Lessons from the Bolivian Water Revolt
Jim Shultz. Community Law Centre. ESR Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2003.
The Right to Water
World Health Organization, February 2003.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development: The Right to Water
Emilie Filmer-Wilson. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2005.
Access to Water and Sanitation Services in Mongolia
Kh. Batbold, Z. Tuul, B. Oyun. December 2004.
This is a summary of a study done by the Mongolian Government in co-operation with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Project (UNDP), and UNICEF in order to understand how access to water and sanitation affect the poor in Mongolia. The five areas of the country were analyzed based on the international standard definitions used be the WHO and UNICEF. Lessons learned from the study will assist the Mongolian Government in devising strategies that will allow for the water and sanitation standards to be improved so that National Millennium Development Goals can be achieved. Lessons from this study can also be applied to other developing countries facing similar challenges. This is Mongolia’s first attempt at using a multidimensional, multiparty assessment that supports the Rights- Based Approach.
Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation
Draft released for review and comment, Center on Housing and Evictions, Geneva, August 2007.
This three part manual outlines the foundations of the right to water and sanitation by surveying the challenges related to limited access and poor quality services. Even though the current international legal framework calls for progressive realization of these rights, unacceptable gaps clearly remain unaddressed. Part II recognizes these gaps and suggests a framework for implementing changes that would allow water and sanitation rights to be fully achieved. Contributions that can be made by governments, individuals, NGOs, and industrial and agricultural users are all discussed. Part III expands by prioritizing these suggestions in order to identify key aspects of realization.