Yeah right = you can't have your water & drink it too
if housing is a "right" - maybe everyone should get it for Free or 'cheaply'..at cost price?
On Wednesday July 28 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared "the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights".
Momentum towards this declaration has been steadily building since the UN Commission on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights declared, in the 2002 General Comment No. 15, that a universal human right to water could be implied out of Articles 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Since that time many countries have made statements recognising the existence of a right to water. Most noteworthy was the adoption of Recommendation 1731 by the Council of Europe (representing 46 European states), which encouraged the recognition of "access to water as a fundamental right", and the adoption of a declaration by the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (representing 116 states) acknowledging "the right to water for all".
However, when the vote was called on Wednesday, 41 countries (including Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) chose to abstain rather than support the declaration and many people have been wondering why.
