A/RES/68/157. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/157
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/157*

General Assembly Distr.: General

12 February 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 69 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]

68/157. The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 64/292 of 28 July 2010, in which it recognized the

right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is

essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights,

Reaffirming

the previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council regarding

the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, inter alia, Council resolution

24/18 of 27 September 2013,

1

Recalling

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

2

the International

Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

3

the International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights,

3

the International Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Racial Discrimination,

4

the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

Discrimination against Women,

5

the Convention on the Rights of the Child

6

and the

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,

7

Reaffirming

its commitments to human rights as expressed in its resolution

55/2 of 8 September 2000, entitled “United Nations Millennium Declaration”, and

its follow-up resolutions 60/1 of 16 September 2005, entitled “2005 World Summit

Outcome”, and 65/1 of 22 September 2010, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to

achieve the Millennium Development Goals”,

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 Reissued for technical reasons on 25 June 2014.

1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1),

chap III.

2 Resolution 217 A (III).

3 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.

5 Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.

6 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.

7 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.