The Human Right to Sanitation

Langford, Malcolm; Bartram, Jamie; Roaf, Virginia

doi:10.1017/9780511862601.012

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“…This idea is very well tuned with HRS as it is considered that no one can fully exercise this HR unless his/her community proceeds towards open defecation free status (Langford, Bartram, & Roaf, 2014). Another group of indicators focuses on the access to sanitation services.…”

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Reporting progress on the human right to water and sanitation through JMP and GLAAS

Baquero

Jiménez

Foguet

2015

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

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International institutions have the authority to monitor States compliance with the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) but the necessary tools for this task are not ready yet. Human development sector has a wider experience on using information about progress which provides a perfect opportunity to develop this further. Due to WHO/UNICEF JMP and UN Water GLAAS mechanisms are well positioned to address this challenge, the information they offer has been analysed through a human rights lens. A matrix has been constructed to specifically identify in which extend these two international platforms can be combined to monitoring HRWS in a broad sense. JMP post 2015 proposal considerably contributes with outcome indicators to measure right holders' enjoyment of the right and GLAAS adds structural and process ones to measure duty bearers' conduct. However, there are still some critical gaps if both UN water platforms will be used to report progress on HRWS. Finally the article forwards some ideas concerning the way these shortcomings could be rectified.

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“…From a HR point of view, the issues of health protection (safety), physical accessibility, affordability and privacy, comfort and dignity (acceptability) are essential (Langford et al, 2014). In this sense, the new proposal discloses four major shortcomings.…”

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Reporting progress on the human right to water and sanitation through JMP and GLAAS

Baquero

Jiménez

Foguet

2015

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

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“…there is general agreement in many forums that human rights and the rule of law are critical to achieving poverty eradication and sustainable development (United nations General assembley, 2014). in the case of sanitation, which is still so far behind its MdG targets, health practitioners and human rights activists hope that framing sanitation as a matter of legal entitlement for all, rather than charity, will help to speed up progress towards universal access (Langford et al, 2011). on the other hand the move towards a rights-based approach in the WasH sector is challenged by a certain amount of scepticism.…”

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Moving along the right track? The experience of developing a rights-based approach at WaterAid

Gosling¹

2014

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“…Moreover, acceptability includes distinctive elements in case of sanitation -privacy, comfort, dignity- (Langford et al 2014; United Nations 2010b) which do not apply for drinking water. Even more, acceptability criterion is normally associated to organoleptic properties which are mainly linked to the quality dimension when specific metrics for the human right to water have been put into practice (O.…”

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Measuring disparities in access to water based on the normative content of the human right

2015

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Measuring access to water in a post-2015 era involves taking into account the human rights framework. Therefore, its content should be considered to conceptualize the level of service through adequate indicators and to follow-up inequities reduction at global, national and local level. This research develops and tests a methodology to measure intra-community disparities based on human right to water normative criteria through a stratified sampling, splitting households served by community based organizations and those selfprovided. This approach implies considering much reduced populations, thus special care needs to be taken with sample sizes and uncertainty of estimators. The proposed methodology is practical to locate and accurately characterize minority sectors within rural communities and allows moving beyond centraltendency estimators. It implies higher costs for field data collection than traditional approaches, but nevertheless, the over-investment can be assumed economically feasible and extremely relevant from a human rights perspective taking into account the imperative need to have adequate tools for equity-oriented policy making at local level. The research point out how results might be used to shape decision-making processes.

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The Human Right to Sanitation

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Reporting progress on the human right to water and sanitation through JMP and GLAAS

Reporting progress on the human right to water and sanitation through JMP and GLAAS

Moving along the right track? The experience of developing a rights-based approach at WaterAid

Measuring disparities in access to water based on the normative content of the human right

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