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Inter Press Service: When the 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) affirmed last week that the right to water and sanitation was a basic human right, the consensus resolution was described as a "historic first" for the U.N.'s premier human rights body based in Geneva. "This landmark decision has the potential to change the lives of billions of human beings who still lack access to water and sanitation," claimed Catarina de Albuquerque, a U.N. independent expert on human rights obligations. What ......
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Water, Sanitation Gain Traction as Basic Human Rights
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 7th, 2010
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