COHRE

COHRE PUBLICATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND MDGS

The Right to Water Programme (RWP) of the Centre on Housing Rights and  Evictions (COHRE) has released a report which addresses the need for  MDG-based policy making on water and sanitation to incorporate human  rights standards. The publication analyses MDG-based policies and  sector strategies from five countries, identifying current trends and  any critical gaps. It reviews the extent to which such policies are  consistent with, are conflicting or fail to reflect human rights  principles. It also shows how gaps in MDG-based policy making can be  usefully filled by more explicit and systematic consideration of human  rights standards. The report titled, The significance of human rights  in MDG-based policy making on water and sanitation: An application to  Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Laos is available at  http://www.cohre.org/resources and www.cohre.org/watsannews