WITH THE SUPPORT OF PANAMA IN a historic vote of 122 countries in favor, 41 abstention and 0 nays, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNITED NATIONS APPROVES RESOLUTION
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BELOW THE LIST OF COUNTRIES AND VOTING SPANISH TEXT OF RESOLUTION A/64/L.63/REV.1.
Vote on Human Right to Water
The draft resolution on the human right to water and sanitation (A/64/L.63/REV.1 document) was adopted by a recorded vote of 122 in Favour to none against, with 41 abstentions, as follows:
In Favour: Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic , Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
Against: None.
Abstain: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, Zambia.
Absent: Albania, Belize, Cameroon, Chad, Fiji, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan.
A/64/L.63/REV.1
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Sixty-fourth session Agenda item 48
Application Integrated and coordinated the results of major conferences and United Nations summits in the economic, social and related fields
Antigua and Barbuda, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia (Multinational State of), Burundi, Congo, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador , Fiji, Georgia, Haiti, Solomon Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Paraguay, Philippines, Dominican Republic, Samoa, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and Yemen: draft resolution
The human right water and sanitation
General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/175 of 17 December 1999 on the Right to Development, 55/196 of 20 December 2000, which proclaimed 2003 the International Year of Freshwater, 58/217 of 23 December 2003, which proclaimed the International Decade for Action "Water for Life "(2005-2015), 59/228 of 22 December 2004, 61/192 of 20 December 2006, by which it proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, and 64/198 of 21 December 2009 on the comprehensive mid-term review of the International Decade for Action "Water for Life" Program June 21, 1992 [1] , the Habitat Agenda 1996 [ 2] , the Plan of Action of Mar del Plata 1977 [3] approved by the United Nations Conference on Water and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development June 1992 [ 4] ,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [5] , the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural [6] , the International Covenant on Civil and Políticos6, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms Racial Discrimination [7] , the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [8] , the Convention on the Rights of the Child [9] , the Convention on the Rights of Persons disabled [10] and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons Time of War of August 12, 1949 [11] ,
Recalling all previous resolutions of the Council of Human Rights on human rights and access to safe water and sanitation, including Council resolutions 7 / 22 of March 28, 2008, and 12 / 8, 1 October 2009, concerning the human right to water and sanitation, General Comment no. 15 (2002) the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the right to water (articles 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) [12] and the report of the High Commissioner of United Nations for Human Rights on the scope and content of the relevant obligations in human rights related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments [13] , and the report of Independent Expert on the question of human rights obligations related to access to safe water and sanitation [14] ,
Deeply concerned that some 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and more than 2,600 million people lack access to basic sanitation, and alarmed that die each year about 1.5 million children under 5 years and 443 million lost school days due to diseases related to water and sanitation,
Recognizing the importance of drinking water and sanitation in playing as an integral component of the realization of all human rights,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to promote and protect all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and must be treated globally in a fair and equitable and equally and receive equal attention,
Mindful of the commitment by the international community to fully implement the Millennium Development Goals, and stressing in this regard the determination of the Heads of State and Government expressed in the Millennium Declaration [15] of halving by 2015 the proportion of people without access to drinking water or can not afford and has no access to basic sanitation, as agreed in the Plan of Implementation adopted at the World Summit for Social Development ("Plan Implementation of the Johannesburg) [16] ,
1. Declares the right to drinking water and sanitation as a human right essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights;
2. Calls upon States and international organizations to provide financial resources and foster the capacity building and technology transfer through international assistance and cooperation, in particular developing countries, to intensify efforts furnish the population with affordable access to safe water and sanitation;
3. Welcomes the decision of the Human Rights Council to request the independent expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to drinking water and sanitation to submit an annual report to the General Assembly [17] , and encourages the independent expert to continue working on all aspects of its mandate and in consultation with all agencies, funds and programs of the United Nations, to include in its report to the Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of the main difficulties involved in realizing the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and the effect of these on the achievement of the Millennium Millennium Development Goals.
* Reissued for technical reasons the July 27, 2010.
[1] Report of the Conference United Nations Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 to June 14, 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.
[2] Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3 to June 14, 1996 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6 ), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
[3] Report of the United Nations Conference on Water, Mar del Plata, 14 to March 25, 1977 (United Nations publication, number Sales S.77.II.A.12), chap. I.
[4] Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 to June 14, 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
[5] Resolution 217 A (III).
[6] See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
[7] United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, no. 9464.
[8] Ibid., Vol. 1249, no. 20378.
[9] Ibid., Vol. 1577, no. 27531.
[10] Resolution 61/106, annex I.
[11] United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, no. 973.
[12] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No.. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV.
[13] A/HRC/6/3.
[14] A/HRC/12/24 and Corr.1.
[15] See resolution 55 / 2.
[16] Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg (South Africa) August 26 to September 4, 2002, (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and correction) chap. 1, resolution 2, annex.
[17] See resolution 12 / 8 of the Human Rights Council.
[2] Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3 to June 14, 1996 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.IV.6 ), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
[3] Report of the United Nations Conference on Water, Mar del Plata, 14 to March 25, 1977 (United Nations publication, number Sales S.77.II.A.12), chap. I.
[4] Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 to June 14, 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
[5] Resolution 217 A (III).
[6] See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
[7] United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, no. 9464.
[8] Ibid., Vol. 1249, no. 20378.
[9] Ibid., Vol. 1577, no. 27531.
[10] Resolution 61/106, annex I.
[11] United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, no. 973.
[12] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No.. 2 (E/2003/22), annex IV.
[13] A/HRC/6/3.
[14] A/HRC/12/24 and Corr.1.
[15] See resolution 55 / 2.
[16] Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg (South Africa) August 26 to September 4, 2002, (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and correction) chap. 1, resolution 2, annex.
[17] See resolution 12 / 8 of the Human Rights Council.
