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Despite or Because of Contestation? How Water Became a Human Right
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 2, May 2021
- pp. 329-343
- 10.1353/hrq.2021.0021
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ABSTRACT:
Almost twenty years after its recognition in international human rights law, the human right to water continues to spark discussions about its scope and meaning. This article revisits the evolution and contestation of the right's first international legal framework, General Comment No. 15 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The analysis highlights the contestation of economic and social rights as a universal phenomenon at multiple levels, but argues that these meaning-making practices can support their validation and recognition.