Activities of Assita KANKO related to 2021/2187(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on access to water as a human right – the external dimension
Amendments (15)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
— having regard to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 75/212 of 21 December 2020 on the United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development" 2018-2028 (UN 2023 Water Conference),
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— having regard to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), initially negotiated as a regional instrument and opened up in 2016 for accession to all UN Member States;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
— having regard to the 1999 UNECE-WHO Protocol on Water and Health to the Water Convention, that provides a framework to translate into practice the human rights to water and sanitation,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the Council Conclusions of 19 November 2021 on water in the EU's external action,
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)
Recital V a (new)
Va. whereas water supply and sanitation are services of general interest, and revenues from the water management cycle should cover its expenses and improvement costs, provided that the public interest is safeguarded;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Supports the EU's diplomatic engagement on transboundary water cooperation as a tool for peace, security and stability, and emphasises the importance of integrated water resource management (IWRM), and the need for more complementarities between humanitarian, development and peace actions in order to address urgent needs and to intervene earlier to address root causes and prevent the onset of humanitarian water and sanitation crises;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with concern that the lack of access to water and adequate sanitation has a devastating effect on women’s rights, making it difficult for women and girls to lead safe and healthy lives; highlights that affordable access to water and adequate sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is an essential prerequisite for public health and human development, including the right to education for girls, and insists that the WASH sector in developing countries should be given high priority in the EU development policy;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores that, as several UN experts have stated, the commodification of water and speculation in futures markets is in breach of basic human rights and contributes to increasing environmental degradation and exacerbating the vulnerability of the poorest and most marginalised in society, flying in the face of the Sustainable Development GoalReminds that water supply and sanitation are services of general interest and not commodities;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that, as the EU Water Framework Directive recognises, water is not a commodity but a public good that is vital to human life and dignity; calls on the Commission, given that these are services of general interest that fall, therefore, primarily in the public interest, to permanently exclude water and sanitation and wastewater treatment from the scope of any trade agreements and to check carefully that trade agreements and the activities of European companies do not undermine, whether by action or omission, the right to drinking water and sanitationStresses that the special nature of water and sanitation services should be observed in the trade agreements that the EU negotiates;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. StresRecognises that public provision is the most appropriate model for the exercise of the humanstates, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, have the rights to water and sanitation; urges states in this regard to engage in a transparent and robust deprivatisation process to improve the effective enjoyment of the human rights to water and sanitation; calls on governments to increase public investments in sustainable water-related infrastructure and to safeguard water as an essential public gooddecide to use different water supply management systems, and stresses that the EU should remain neutral in relation to decisions of third states governing the ownership regime for water undertakings;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Recalls that water and sanitation services concessions must be awarded in accordance with the principles of transparency, equal treatment and non- discrimination, and stresses the importance of national regulatory authorities in ensuring fair and open competition between service providers, in facilitating faster implementation of innovative solutions and technical progress, and in promoting the efficiency and quality of water services, while protecting consumers' interests, ensuring continuity of supply and safeguarding the public interest;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Highlights the success of both public-private and public-public partnerships in exchanging best practices in water provision, and calls on the Commission, therefore, to promote in its external action both forms of cooperation among water operators;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the World Bank and the IMF to prohibit the imposition of conditions requiring governments to privatise water and sanitation services when providing grants, loans and technical assistance; stresses that the widespEmphasises that assistance for safe drinking water and sanitation should be given high priority in the allocation of EU funds and in assistance programming; calls on the Commission to ensure ad privatisation of public goods in many societies is systematically dismantling human rights safeguards and further marginalising those living in the most abject povertyequate financial support to capacity- development actions in the water domain, cooperating with existing international platforms and institutions;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Supports the Global Water Solidarity Platform launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in order to engage local authorities in finding solutions to water challenges; also welcomes initiatives taken by citizens and authorities in some Member States in order to support projects in developing countries with funds from consumption fees;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Welcomes the UN 2023 Water Conference as an opportunity to develop cross-sectoral approaches in order to achieve water-related targets and goals and to get SDG 6 back on track;