OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR, as the leading UN entity on human rights, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the UN and in international human rights laws and treaties, including the human rights to water and sanitation.
The work of OHCHR includes monitoring and preventing violations of human rights to water and sanitation, developing thematic research and advocacy, and promoting a human rights-based approach to water and sanitation in cooperation with Member States, the UN system, national human rights institutions and civil society.
OHCHR, as the secretariat of the Human Rights Council and treaty bodies, provides secretariat support to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, which is an independent mandate established under the Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures mechanism, as well as to the work of relevant treaty bodies related to water and sanitation.
Contribution to the global indicators discussions
Contribution to the global indicators discussions with inputs from the human rights indicators framework.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation UN-Water On 19 October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, Mr. Léo, presented the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation … Read more
Call for inputs on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation UN-Water The Special Rapporteur on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation will undertake an official visit to Malaysia from 21 November to 4 December 2018. Civil society, human rights activists and other interested sta … Read more
39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council hosted in Geneva UN-Water The 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will be held on 10–28 September 2018, at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. During the session, high-level discussions will be held on various human … Read more
UN Special Rapporteur urges Mongolia to raise standards UN-Water The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Léo Heller, has called on the Government of Mongolia to do more to meet the water and sanitation standards set by the SDGs. Heller’s report highlight … Read more
Call for inputs on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation UN-Water The Special Rapporteur on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation will undertake an official visit to Mongolia from 9 to 20 April 2018. Civil society, human rights activists and other interested parties are enc … Read more