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Empowering Women and Girls Through Access to Water and Sanitation: Fulfilling Human Rights and Promoting Equality

Explore the crucial link between water and sanitation access and the dignity, equality, and opportunities of women and girls. Discover the challenges faced in realizing these rights, how post-2015 goals aim to tackle gender disparities, and why universal access is a collective responsibility.

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Empowering Women and Girls Through Access to Water and Sanitation: Fulfilling Human Rights and Promoting Equality

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  1. Ensuring rights to water and sanitation for women and girls Lyla Mehta Institute of Development Studies, UK and Noragric, Norway

  2. Why water and sanitation for all? • Essential for global justice and human development • Key to realising all the MDGs • Recognised as human rights by the General Assembly and Human Rights Council in 2010 • Provide equality, dignity, privacy and equal life chances to women and girls

  3. MDG target 7c: “to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” - currently 780 million lack access to drinking water and 2.5 billion people lack improved sanitation facilities

  4. Women’s daily water access issues in Ethiopia Hand dug well water salty and skin gets affected Water runs out at 10am

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  6. Gaps in formulation • No attention to regional variation • Rural dwellers, poor and peri urban areas miss out • No questioning of gender disparities • Low hanging fruit • Ignores equality and sustainability • What counts as improved? • No sex-disaggregated data

  7. Challenges to realising rights to water and sanitation

  8. Prospects and conclusions • Targets galvanise political action from global to local • Benefits for women and girls and powerful ways to tackle gender inequality • Post-2015: non discrimination, equality, sustainability, rights • Need to go beyond tracking number, counting toilets • Universality / tackling exclusion not an option but collective responsibility

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