Jul
29
“[London] does not believe that there exists at present sufficient legal basis under international law to either declare or recognize water or sanitation as free-standing human rights.”
British U.N. delegate Nicola Freedman regarding United Nations Resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1, the Human Right to Water. The United States also offered its own weasely and pathetic explanation in legalese as to why they don’t see water and sanitation as a human right.
(via hungryghoast & jhnbrssndn)
