Catarina de Albuquerque

Executive Chair of Sanitation and Water for All
From 2008 to 2014 Catarina de Albuquerque became the first United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, having played a pivotal role in the recognition of water and sanitation as human rights by the UN Ge... Read full biography
Society
October 9, 2016

Making the human rights to water and sanitation a reality

I came into this sector in 2009 as UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, new to the sector, a lawyer who had worked all my life with human rights. Luckily for me, I, and my sometimes challenging ideas,...

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