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  The human right to water and sanitation

  The human right to water and sanitation

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  Water and Sanitation as Human Right -Media Forum

  The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2011 brought together under the overarching theme “Human Rights in a Globalized World. Challenges for the Media” media users and producers, scientists, representatives from organizations working in cultural, political, business, development and science sector, as well as human rights experts, policy makers and representatives from international, grassroots and non-governmental organizations to discuss how to harmonize individual and collective action in order to steer the world away from a foreboding future and instead toward genuine sustainability.

  Click here to download a report of the event.

  Journalists Training on Capacity Development for Water

  UNW-DPC was actively involved in the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Together with UNW-DPAC, UNW-DPC organized a Journalists Training Workshop on Sunday, June 20th, and co-organized a well-attended session on "Water and Sanitation as a Human Right" at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, as well as co-organizing the UN-Water stand at the event. Click here to download the poster

  
  
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  Photo Gallery Journalists Training on Capacity Development for Water

  
  
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  Key Documents

  The Human Right to Water	The human right to water and sanitation Reader	The Right to Water: Fact Sheet No. 35	On the right track: Good Practices in realising the rights to water and sanitation	Water as human right?

  Fact sheet on water and sanitation as a human right	Glossary on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation