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Achieving safely managed water services in Africa

This Briefing Note jointly developed with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation summarises the inputs received during the third series of the Safe Water...
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Officials at the meeting of the Kèlè Tchinè project

Rural sanitation project Kèlè Tchinè in Burkina Faso

Published on: 30/03/2021
Kèlè Tchinè is a project that aims to accelerate universal and sustainable access to sanitation in ten rural communes in the central west region of Burkina Faso.

Irène Coulibaly, secretary general of the region

Assainissement : Dix communes rurales du Centre-Ouest bénéficient

Published on: 30/03/2021
Kèlè Tchinè est un projet visant à accélérer l'accès universel et durable à l'assainissement dans dix communes rurales de la région du Centre-Ouest du Burkina Faso.

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Webinar: People First-PPPs and a Human Rights-Based Approach for SDG 6

Published on: 30/07/2020
Our friends at Human Right 2 Water are pleased to invite you to their third webinar of Human Right 2 Water's Webinar Series, bringing together human rights, water, and financing experts. Join them on the 5th August 2020, 13:00h-14:30h CET - to discuss the topic on, "People First PPPs and Human...

Human Right to Water and Sanitation

Celebrating 10 years of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation

Published on: 28/07/2020

OHCHR | 10 years of human rights to water and sanitation, 1 Jan - 31 Oct 2020

Published on: 16/07/2020
A campaign by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation - celebrating the 10th anniversary of these human rights.

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RWSN Webinar series on Human right to water - achievable by 2030? 14 April to 16 June 2020

Published on: 19/03/2020
What are practical implications to achieve the human right to water by 2030? Solutions to this question will be explored from different practical and legal angles every Tuesday until 16 June 2020 in English, French and/or Spanish.

Women in India holding up sanitary products (Photo credit: Rudrani Ghosh photography)

‘She Makes Change’ if you believe in her

Published on: 10/03/2020
My story of empowerment starts from a toilet, or to be precise the lack of it.

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The imminent need for the humanitarian-development nexus

Published on: 11/02/2020
This is the first of a series of blog posts on building resilient WASH systems in fragile contexts.

Work on a waterpump in Mali

In Mali, water is a source of life

Published on: 10/02/2020
How can you help NGOs and citizens in Mali better stand up for their rights when it comes to water and sanitation?

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[Webinar]Regulating the WASH sector from a human rights lens - RWSN-IAW Webinar 13 February

Published on: 06/02/2020
Join us for the first joint webinar convened by RWSN with IWA and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation on the topic of Regulation through a human rights lens. IWA will host the webinar.

Loo with a view, Trawden, Lancashire, UK

Stop being a neo-liberal and embrace the sanitation system

Published on: 13/11/2019
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source.

Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Unicef et IRC appuient les «faiseurs de loi»

Published on: 11/10/2019
Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Gender and social inclusion workshop by Watershed

Recommendations for social inclusion in the Dutch WASH strategy

Published on: 21/08/2019
Watershed report with recommendations on social inclusion for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs' WASH strategy 2016-2030.

Social inclusion in the WASH strategy 2016-2030 of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs : a guiding document

A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production.
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Participants of the human rights workshop in Ouagadougou

201 élus locaux formés à appliquer le droit à l'eau et à l'assainissement

Published on: 25/06/2019
Le Ministère de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (MEA) a initié des formations en approche fondée sur les droits humains (AFDH) et le genre à l’endroit de 201 élus locaux de douze régions du Burkina Faso.

AGUASAN event: Advancing the Human Right to Water and Sanitation through Inclusive Business Approaches

Published on: 16/04/2019
Advancing the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRTWS) through inclusive business approaches May 13th to 17th 2019, Spiez, Switzerland

World Water Day 2019

Committing to leaving no one behind ahead of World Water Day

Published on: 20/03/2019
Continuing our pursuit to secure the human right to water and sanitation with an inspirational event at the Peace Palace.

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IRC hosts event at Peace Palace on the human right to water and sanitation

Published on: 25/02/2019
IRC supported by Municipality of The Hague and high profile international organisations join during international event at Peace Palace on the human right to water and sanitation.

Elianey Kegel , Sara Bori and Ingeborg Krukkert before the Dutch primary school Emmaus

A participatory lesson in human rights for Dutch schoolchildren

Published on: 25/06/2018
We joined hands with Amnesty International to raise awareness for global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges amongst 10 year olds.

Lancement du consortium

Ensemble pour faire du droit à l’eau et à l’assainissement une réalité au Burkina Faso

Published on: 23/01/2018
Cérémonie de lancement d'un consortium pour de défense et protection du droit humain à l'eau et à l'assainissement.

Amanda Loeffen, WaterLex

Linking safe water businesses to the human right to water and sanitation

Published on: 20/11/2017
The drive for reaching SDG 6 has created a big demand from private safe water businesses to help governments supply safe water.

Patrick's Poo

This year we’re talking poo not just toilets

Published on: 15/11/2017
Turning World Toilet Day into World Sanitation Systems Day

Colloque national sur les modeles de gestion efficace du service d'eau potable

Colloque national : Définir les modèles de gestion efficace d’eau potable au Burkina Faso

Published on: 19/10/2017
Au Burkina Faso, seulement 54% de la population a accès à l’eau potable.

Mrs Traoré Afou Chantal Bengaly

Water quality is an underestimated problem in Mali

Published on: 11/04/2017
The human right to water and water quality are two focus areas for Watershed in Mali says Mrs Traoré Afou Chantal Bengaly in an interview.

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