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Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa book cover

1st Edition

Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Asit Biswas, Eglal Rached, Cecilia Tortajada Copyright 2008
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than two billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed that water should be considered to be a human right. This position, however, has not... Read more

Introduction.  Water as a Human Rights, Opportunities and Constraints.  Human Right to Water in North Africa and the Middle East: What is New and What is Not - What is Important and What is Not.  Right to Water: Millennium Development Goals and Water in the MENA Region.  Right to Water.  Actualizing the Human Right to Water: An Egyptian Perspective for an Action Plan.  Towards a Human Right to Water Approach in Lebanon.  Accountability and Rights in Right-Based Approaches for Local Water Governance.  Water as a Human Right: Towards Civil Society Globalization.  Improving Access to Water Resources and Social Inclusion in the Middle East.  Water as a Human Right: The Palestinian Occupied Territories as Example.  Water as a Human Right: The Understanding of Water Rights in Palestine

Biography

Biswas, Asit; Rached, Eglal; Tortajada, Cecilia

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