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 ...

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.

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 ...

The CHEM Trust researcher said England and Wales “have no statutory limits on PFAS in drinking water – the water companies ...

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.

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.

The sight of dehydrated children being handed meagre bottled water rations in Gaza, is surely grounds to reflect on the vitality of water and sanitation in any civilized society. In 2010, the ...

The UN General Assembly declared clean drinking water a human right in 2010, but the number without it is still astronomically high. Half of the world doesn’t have safe drinking water.

Fundamentally, we must recognize water as a universal human right, rather than a commodity reserved for the few. Whether in Jackson, Flint, Tribal lands, or beyond, the struggle for water is a ...

More than 11,000 people have joined Amnesty International UK’s call on the Government to make access to safe and affordable housing a human right for all in England - with this right enshrined in law ...