Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Africa water, Sanitation May-June2015 Vol. 10 No.3

Publications The UN World Water Development Report 2015, Water for a Sustainable World The 2015 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2015), titled Water for a Sustainable World, was launched at the official celebration of the World Water Day, on March 20. The WWDR 2015 demonstrates how water resources and services are essential to achieving global sustainability. Taking account of economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, the report’s forward-looking narrative describes how major challenges and change factors in the modern world will affect – and can be affected by – water resources, services and related benefits. The report provides a comprehensive overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken by stakeholders and the international community. Recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation by UN Member States at the international level An overview of resolutions and declarations that recognize the human rights to water and sanitation. Gonzalez, C., Khalfan, A., Lande, L. van de, Neumeyer, H. and Scannellad, P., 2015. Publishers: Amnesty International and WASH United. Pages: 124 All UN Member States have recognised that the human right to water and the human right to sanitation are part of binding international human rights law. This publication gathers the evidence of the universal recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation: it gives an overview of the most important resolutions and declarations that recognise the human rights to water and sanitation, including the positions that individual states have taken when those documents were adopted. For 77 countries, it also lists their individual positions and how these have changed over time. The document has previously served as an internal reference guide for Amnesty International and WASH United. We are publishing it to help others identify the position that their country has taken on the human rights to water and sanitation, to advocate for the rights in their own national contexts, to ensure that these rights will not be ignored in the formulation and implementation of national water and sanitation laws and policy, and to help advance strategic litigation before national, regional and international justice mechanisms. Available at: http://wash-united.org/files/wash-united/ resources/States%27%20Recognition%20of%20 HRWS_WEB_2015.pdf and https://www.amnesty.org/en/ documents/ior40/1380/2015/en/ A New Training Guide on Menstrual Hygiene Management, 2015 An informative, new training guide which seeks to assist practitioners in integrating

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