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development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans of action related to the
right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
10.
Underlines the importance of an effective remedy for violations of economic,
social and cultural rights, including the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation,
and in this regard, of judicial, quasi-judicial and other appropriate remedies, including
procedures initiated by or on behalf of individuals or, as appropriate, groups of individuals,
and of adequate procedures to avoid infringements of such rights;
11.
Calls upon States:
(a)
To achieve progressively the full realization of the human right to safe
drinking water and sanitation;
(b)
To identify patterns of failure to respect, protect or fulfil the human right to
safe drinking water and sanitation for all persons without discrimination and to address
their structural causes in policymaking and budgeting within a broader framework, while
undertaking holistic planning aimed at achieving sustainable universal access, including in
instances where the private sector, donors and non-governmental organizations are involved
in service provision;
(c)
To ensure that effective remedies for violations of their obligations regarding
the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, including judicial, quasi-judicial and
other appropriate remedies, are accessible to everyone, without discrimination;
(d)
To promote access for judges, prosecutors and decision-makers to adequate
human rights education and training, including on the human right to safe drinking water
and sanitation, by, inter alia, promoting or otherwise supporting ongoing training and the
inclusion of such human rights curricula in law schools and other higher education, as
appropriate;
(e)
To promote the ability of human rights institutions and other relevant bodies
to identify violations of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, to receive
complaints of violations of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and to assist with
access to effective remedies for violations of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
(f)
To provide comprehensive information in their periodic reports to treatymonitoring bodies, for the universal periodic review process and to relevant regional and
other mechanisms, as appropriate, for the identification, prevention and remedy of
violations of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
12.
Calls upon non-State actors, including business enterprises, both
transnational and others, to comply with their responsibility to respect human rights,
including the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, including by cooperating
with State investigations into allegations of abuses of the human right to safe drinking
water and sanitation, and by progressively engaging with States to detect and remedy
abuses of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation;
13.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to facilitate, including through
engagement with relevant stakeholders, the provision of technical assistance in the area of
the implementation of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, to identify
challenges and obstacles to the full realization of the human right to safe drinking water and
sanitation, as well as protection gaps thereto, to continue to identify good practices and
enabling factors in this regard, and to monitor the way in which the human right to safe
drinking water and sanitation is being realized throughout the world;
14.
Encourages all Governments to continue to respond favourably to requests
by the Special Rapporteur for visits and information, to follow up effectively on the
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