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The Special Rapporteur will bring attention to sanitation and hygiene, which otherwise tend to be overshadowed by water issues. Challenges to realizing the human rights to water and sanitation may also be exacerbated in certain environmental, political, economic or demographic situations. (...) Indeed, the Special Rapporteur’s thorough analysis of key themes, principles and practices will serve as a basis for establishing an effective dialogue with multiple stakeholders on essential issues related to eliminating inequalities in access and realizing the human rights to water and sanitation. (...) He considers it of paramount importance that his mandate be used as an opportunity to channel the extensive range of expertise and experiences that already exists around the world into the common, universal goal of realizing the human rights to water and sanitation for all.

The Government has a real opportunity to become a true champion of poverty reduction by improving the lives of many facing hardship and realizing the poverty eradication ambitions of the new economic policy. (...) Most importantly, as UNICEF has noted, the system has “virtually no redistributive or poverty reduction impact”.51 That is because of inadequate investment, expenditure failing to keep pace with GDP growth and schemes that provide only small irregular benefits.52 There is a lack of employee safety nets and income support for disadvantaged persons, such as the unemployed, single parents, persons with disabilities and older persons, remains ad hoc, insufficiently targeted and incapable of 44 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia” OECD working papers No. 1371 (January 2017), pp. 11–12. 45 Jacqueline David, “RM 1,100 minimum monthly wage comes into effect”, Borneo Post Online, 2 January 2019. 46 Department of Statistics, Household Income and Basic Amenities Survey Report 2016, table 1.11, pp. 54–57. 47 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia”, p. 18. 48 World Bank, Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2019: Making Ends Meet, p. 48. 49 World Bank, Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2018: Realizing Human Potential, pp. 34 and 36, and Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2019: Making Ends Meet, pp. 42 and 50. 50 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia”, p. 23. 51 Submission by UNICEF Malaysia, p.2. 52 Ibid. (...) As of 2017, the median monthly income for a household without formal education was RM 1,100 (US$ 270), compared to RM 3,400 (US$ 836) for those with a tertiary education.61 Malaysia has made impressive progress in increasing school enrolment rates, including universal primary education. 62 However, attrition from the school system is a major challenge, especially for low-income 53 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia”, pp. 10 and 16. 54 World Bank, Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2018: Realizing Human Potential, p. 65. 55 UNICEF Malaysia, “Children without: a study of urban child poverty and deprivation in low-cost flats in Kuala Lumpur”, p. 24. 56 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia,” p. 28. 57 World Bank, Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2018: Realizing Human Potential, pp. 62–63. 58 Ibid, p. 61. 59 Stewart Nixon, Hidekatsu Asada and Vincent Koen, “Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia,” p. 28. 60 Department of Statistics, Household Income and Basic Amenities Survey Report 2016, p. 98. 61 Ibid., “Salaries and wages survey report 2017”, available from https://bit.ly/2KnJEwn. 62 World Bank, Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2018: Realizing Human Potential, pp. 54 and 57.

Calls on the international community to take steps against the Israeli occupation and its colonial practices that jeopardize the fundamentals of the rule-based international order, not to recognize the illegal status of Israeli settlement on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, or help to sustain it in any way, as well as take all the necessary legal countermeasures that include refraining from dealings with any Israeli government that endorses its annexation agenda, imposing economic and political sanctions on Israel, boycotting the Israeli colonial A/74/926 S/2020/584 20-08693 4/5 system, illegal Israeli settlements and their products, in addition to ensuring accountability measures, with a view to ending the Israeli colonial occupation and realizing national independence of the State of Palestine based on 1967 borders, with Al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital. 8. Declares its support for the Palestinian leadership’s decisions of 19 May 2020, while reiterating that peace and security in the Middle East, as a strategic option, cannot be achieved without ending Israel’s illegal, colonial occupation of the State of Palestine, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif and the Arab territories occupied since June 1967; and calls on the international community to make every effort necessary to end this illegal occupation, and to help the Palestinian people achieve their inalienable rights and fulfill their legitimate national aspirations, including exercising their right to self-determination, realizing sovereignty and independence of the State of Palestine, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, and reaching a just solution to the question of Palestinian refugees in compliance with the principles of international law, relevant UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative, which was adopted by the Extraordinary Islamic Summit of Mecca (2005). 9.

In this regard, we confirm our intention to continue active cooperation in the sphere of forming effective regional system of transport corridors and realizing A/74/571 5/6 19-20920 enormous transit potential of Central Asia. (...) The parties agreed on the need to pay special permanent attention to the problems of youth and take joint measures and adopt programs aimed at supporting young people in realizing their potential, as well as developing dialogue and cooperation among youth organizations of the states of the region in the spheres of culture, science, technologies, entrepreneurship, etc.

The NHRCK is a national human rights institution founded for the purpose of protecting and enhancing the inviolable rights of each and every person, realizing our dignity and worthiness as human beings, and establishing a democratic social order, and has been conducting its missions to promote compliance with international human rights standards and implement human rights in Korea.

PROGRESS MADE AND OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED IN REALIZING THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION ............................... 24 - 70 10 A. (...) PROGRESS MADE AND OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED IN REALIZING THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION 24. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges the Kingdom of Morocco’s strong political commitment and its efforts to promote the right to education for its citizens and notes that the education reform is one of the Government’s principal concerns. (...) Another major obligation of States parties in terms of realizing the right to education is to make education accessible to all, particularly the most disadvantaged groups, without discrimination.

If such practices are continuously fostered and connived, the international human rights arena will become a political confrontation theatre for serving interests of individual countries, not one for realizing genuine dialogue and cooperation. It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to wish for dialogue and cooperation for the protection and promotion of genuine human rights but to strongly reject dialogue and cooperation targeting sinister political purposes.

J- mitted, by reason of their poht1cal opm10ns or conv1c- tions, Noting that these persons are often exposed to sp~cial dangers as regards the protection of their human nghts and fundamental freedoms, Realizing, therefore, that special attentio~ should be given to the full respect of the human nghts and fundamental freedoms of these persons, l.

It is noteworthy that along with these provocative actions, the President of Azerbaijan circulates the so called “Zangezur corridor” formulation which stands in full contradiction with the trilateral joint statements of November 9, 2020, and January 11, 2021, particularly the provision on unblocking the existing economic and regional links. While realizing that these claims, which violate the international law, are baseless, the Azerbaijani side tries to bring forward the argument of its readiness to use force to this end.

Such an explicit recognition is a critical first step, since it provides a strong legal foundation for, and demonstrates a clear commitment to, realizing these rights for everyone in the country. (...) The county sanitation profiles include assessments of indicators on the enabling environment for sanitation, including 7 Kenya, Ministry of Health, and UNICEF, Realizing Open Defecation Free (ODF) Rural Kenya: Achievements and the Road Ahead (2014), p. vi. (...) Sustainability is a fundamental human rights principle and an essential element for realizing the human rights to water and sanitation.