Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have They Strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access?

• Other Authors: Wilson, Bruce M. (Editor), Brinks, Daniel (Editor), Singh, Arkaja (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Cape Town Day Zero; water rights; water scarcity; water-justice; water-governance; inequality; South Africa; right to water; courts; vulnerable groups; UN resolutions; water; sanitation; human rights; human right to water and sanitation; HRtWS; natural language processing; machine learning; text analysis; constitutional reform; legal opportunity structure; water legal framework; socioeconomic rights; Brazil; Peru; Colombia; social movements; political cost; advocacy; activism; social movement; socio-economic rights; United States; political opportunity; coalition-building; collective action; human rights from below; human rights to water and sanitation; water access; constitutionalisation; norm diffusion; opportunity structures; impact and efficacy of human rights; human right to water; drinking water; irrigation; marginalised groups; indigenous communities; social and economic rights; human rights critiques; right to life; right to environment; global rights; evolution of rights; construction of rights; Latin America; South Asia; Europe; Africa; USA
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This book investigates the impact of the United Nations General Assembly's 2010 resolution that elevated rights to water and sanitation are stand-alone international human rights. A major goal of creating this new human right was to incentivize governments to prioritize and pursue policies to i...