Hacia la realización del derecho humano al agua y al saneamiento: El papel de la relatora especial

• Main Author: Laura Movilla Pateiro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI) 2012-01-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
• Subjects: Extra-conventional protection of human rights; special procedures; Independent expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation; Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation; right to water and sanitation; Protección extra convencional de los derechos humanos; procedimientos especiales; Experta Independiente sobre la cuestión de las obligaciones de derechos humanos relacionadas con el acceso al agua potable y al saneamiento; Relatora Especial sobre el derecho al agua y al saneamiento; derecho al agua y al saneamiento
• Online Access: http://www.reei.org/index.php/revista/num23/notas/hacia-realizacion-derecho-humano-al-agua-al-saneamiento-papel-relatora-especial

In the past few years, there have been views developing on the problem of lack of access to portable water and sanitation from which millions of people have suffered in the world from a human rights perspective, culminating in the recognition of the right to water and sanitation by the General Assembly and the Human rights Council in 2010 within the international arena. In this paper we shall examine the role of the work of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, commissioned in 2008, and whose mandate has been renewed in 2011 as Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation has had in the development of this right.