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<a href="http://www.endwaterpoverty.org">End Water Poverty</a> calls  on  UN  member  states negotiating the SDGs to ensure that human rights is the framework for all the SDGs, in particular SDG 6, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. 
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Make our human right to water and sanitation a reality The human  right  to  water  and  sanitation was  first  recognised  by  a 2010 UN  General  Assembly  Resolution (64/292,  para.  1) –this confirmed  it  as  a  human  right  in  itself,  and  a  right  essential  to  the  realisation  of  all  others.  Subsequent UN Human Rights  Council resolutions further  clarified  the  meaning  of  the  right,  which  was  universally  recognised  by  the UN  General  Assembly in  2013 (Resolution 68/157). UN 
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Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, 
explains:  “This means that for the UN, the right to water and sanitation is contained in existing human rights treaties and is therefore legally binding.”

- <a href="http://www.endwaterpoverty.org/sites/endwaterpoverty.org/files/EWP%20SDG%20Key%20Asks%20FINAL_0.pdf">source</a>