Conjuring Up New Human Rights: A Proposal For Quality Control

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Alston
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Human Right ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
International Human

Writing in 1968, the year of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Richard Bilder concluded that “in practice, a claim is an international human right if the United Nations General Assembly says it is.” Fifteen years later, as the 35th anniversary is celebrated, the authoritative role that Bilder correctly attributed to the General Assembly is in serious danger of being undermined.

scholarly journals The progressive realization of human rights to water: the legal basis, policy implications, and monitoring challenge

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 08006
Author(s):  
Anindrya Nastiti ◽  
Teddy Prasetiawan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Single Variable ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

Since 2010, the United Nations General Assembly had explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and obliged States to provide for its progressive realization and entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for essential personal and domestic uses. This paper scrutinizes the legal basis and the policy implication for human right to water in Indonesia, before and following the annulment of the Water Resource Law 7/2004. This paper considers that one of the greatest challenges is to find an appropriate and internationally-comparable methodology in measuring the progressive realization of human rights to water and sanitation. We also highlight the importance of composite indicators and concludes that single variable indicators are insufficient to capture the range of issues involved in the realization of the human rights to water.

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