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Activists around the world chant the slogan that "water is a human right." Yet more than a billion poor people in the world today lack access to safe drinking water. Twelve million of them die ...

As the United Nations spearheaded efforts to mark World Water Day on Monday, scarcity was at the top of the agenda. And with an increasing number of communities around the world lacking sufficient ...

Ultimately the management of water resources lies with the governments, who retain a sovereign duty to ensure the human right to safe drinking water. The water crisis is a climate justice crisis.

The UK’s assault on human rights comes against an international backdrop which has seen a “human rights catastrophe” in Ukraine - with Russian forces committing mass war crimes, extrajudicial ...

Our rating: False. There is no evidence the WEF ordered governments around the world to ration water sent to people's homes, nor that it declared water is not a human right.

Community water challenges In 2012, California became the first state in the country to define water access as a human right. But a decade later, communities up and down the state still struggle ...

The Human Rights Act (1998) introduced the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, of which the UK was one of the primary authors. What this means in practice is that people who wish to ...

On July 28, member states of the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a historic resolution that recognizes that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.