The human right to water and sanitation: the view of the UN's independent expert

摘要

Iwas shocked by the lack of response that I got from some countries,' comments Catarina de Albuquerque, the independent expert appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council to focus on the human right to water and sanitation, providing one of her negative experiences since taking up her role in 2008.'I have to write letters to countries requesting a visit to their respective country and many countries that I wish to visit simply don't answer because they don't want me to come - this has been kind of a shock to me. Even if I then meet with the ambassadors and tell them, I would like to visit your country for reasons A, B and C and D, and I try to be nice and polite, still there is a total refusal to accept human rights monitoring within their countries'.