SOGI UN source Archives: Special Rapporteur on the Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, A/HRC/33/49, 27 July 2016
I. Introduction 2. Many of the challenges to achieving gender equality in access to water, sanitation and hygiene are well documented: where water is not available in the home, women and girls are primarily responsible for water and hygiene at the household level and bear the greatest burden for collecting water. Other challenges related to […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, A/HRC/27/55, 30 June 2014
III. A typology of common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation D. Violations of the obligation to refrain from discrimination and to ensure substantive equality 3. Failure to prevent and combat stigmatization and to take measures against discrimination in the private sphere 64. Women and girls are frequently subjected to unacceptable risks […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water, A/HRC/21/42, 2 July 2012
II. UNDERSTANDING STIGMA AND ITS DRIVERS 12. Stigma relates closely to power and inequality, and those with power can deploy it at will. Stigma can broadly be understood as a process of dehumanizing, degrading, discrediting and devaluing people in certain population groups, often based on a feeling of disgust. Put differently, there is a perception […]