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Haiti: UN urges investing in water and sanitation services to combat cholera
11 January 2012 - Dramatic improvements in water and sanitation services are needed to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, health experts who took part in a United Nations-organized briefing to outline concrete steps to stem the spread of the disease in the region said today.
Senegal: UN rights expert urges more spending on sanitation and clean water
21 November 2011 - A United Nations human rights expert warned today that millions of Senegalese remain condemned to very unhealthy living conditions until the West African country’s Government significantly increases spending on ensuring major improvements to water and sanitation facilities.
UN rights expert urges countries to raise spending on improving sanitation
19 November 2011 - The United Nations independent expert on access to water and sanitation as a human right today urged States to allocate more resources to improving sanitation and promote efficient use of existing hygiene facilities, stressing that people are entitled to decent toilets.
Former Ghanaian leader to head UN-backed partnership on water and sanitation
16 November 2011 - The former Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor will head the United Nations-backed partnership known as Sanitation and Water for All, which works to achieve universal and sustainable access to decent sanitation and drinking water.
UNICEF ramps up efforts to help flood victims in Thailand
10 November 2011 - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is distributing more than 300,000 hygiene and sanitation items to flood-affected families in Thailand in an effort to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in the country.
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- General Assembly Wraps Up Two Meetings on Achieving Human Right to Water and Sanitation; Revitalizing Conference on Disarmament - 29 July 2011
- Against Backdrop of Drought-Driven Emergency in Horn of Africa, General Assembly Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation - 27 July 2011
- Progress Can Be Ours in Achieving Goals for Water, Sanitation, Stability, Prosperity, Peace If We Work Together, Says Secretary-General - 27 July 2011
- Improved Sanitation Can Contribute to All Global Development Goals, Says Secretary-General at Launch of Sustainable Five-year Drive to 2015 - 21 June 2011
- As with So Many Other Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples Suffer Disproportionate Violations of Right to Safe Water, Sanitation, Permanent Forum Told - 24 May 2011
- General Assembly, Human Rights Council Texts Declaring Water, Sanitation Human Right Breakthrough; Challenge Now to Turn Right into a Reality, Third Committee Told - 25 October 2010
- Everyone Should Have Access to Water and Sanitation Services That We in This Room Take for Granted, Says Secretary-General on Persistent, Pressing Challenge - 22 September 2010
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