The human right to water and sanitation is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life.
A boy drinks from a tap at a NEWAH WASH water project in Nepal
People sanitizing the environment in Nigeria
A group of people gathering around a communal tap in Johannesburg, South Africa
The Jamuna River, the river that the state of Haryana and the city of Delhi were using
Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national and international laws. These rights are considere
Human right to water and sanitation
…The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life. It was recognized as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly on 28…
Magna Carta or "Great Charter" was one of the world's first documents containing commitments by a sovereign to his people to respect certain legal rights.[dubious – discuss]
The United States Declaration of Independence, unanimously ratified by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by the National Assembly of France, 26 August 1789
"It is not a treaty... [In the future, it] may well become the international Magna Carta." Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1949.