Swedish Water House är en mötesplats för innovativt tänkande kring vattenrelaterade frågor, kunskapsutbyte och policyutveckling.
Varje år organiserar SWH seminarier och workshops inom vatten och utvecklingsfrågor. SWH hjälper också svenska organisationer att arrangera seminarier och att delta i internationella möten.
En viktig del av SWHs arbete är att erbjuda olika aktörer möjlighet att delta i ämnesrelaterade klustergrupper. Grupperna möts kring aktuella frågeställningar med syfte att komma fram till gemensamma policyrekommendationer.
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Press and mediaVarje år organiserar SWH seminarier och workshops inom vatten och utvecklingsfrågor. SWH hjälper också svenska organisationer att arrangera seminarier och att delta i internationella möten.
Focal points for human rights
As SIWI’s focal point for the human rights-based approach I sometimes get the question how much those UN resolutions changed the situation. This is almost impossible to answer as we don’t have a benchmark that enables us to compare.
Difficult to measure
It is also very difficult to measure and monitor what has happened due to the two human rights in question. The 1966 Covenant (read more here) allows for full realization of the human rights through progressive steps, which has rightly been described as‘aspirational’, vague, and not imposing sufficiently clear obligations on states.
Lacking policing
International human rights law lacks the policing power of a nation state. But make no mistake: the ‘binding’ nature of the HRWS is not only symbolic. The fact that we now have the HRWS in the toolbox provides civil society and us citizens with arguments for advocacy – and gives rights-holders a legal footing to hold governments to account.
Could be question, or a header
Mr Jitendra Singhcomplained that an authority had violated its duty to protect communal water bodies against private companies; subsequently, the Supreme Court of India agreed and referred to the Constitution’s clause on the right to life, which includes the right to potable water.
Hur vi jobbar med klustergrupper
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Recommendations are drawn from practical engagements of the Africa EU Water Partnership Programme and its partners in supporting water infrastructure development in Africa and Sweden, as well as recommendations from stakeholders elevated during the public discussions at SIWI’s World Water Week 2018 in relation to the three challenges discussed in this issue paper. Specific recommendations elaborated on in this paper include:
Recommendations are drawn from practical engagements of the Africa EU Water Partnership Programme and its partners in supporting water infrastructure development in Africa and Sweden, as well as recommendations from stakeholders elevated during the public discussions at SIWI’s World Water Week 2018 in relation to the three challenges discussed in this issue paper. Specific recommendations elaborated on in this paper include:
Recommendations are drawn from practical engagements of the Africa EU Water Partnership Programme and its partners in supporting water infrastructure development in Africa and Sweden, as well as recommendations from stakeholders elevated during the public discussions at SIWI’s World Water Week 2018 in relation to the three challenges discussed in this issue paper. Specific recommendations elaborated on in this paper include:
“At Xylem we believe that today’s many water challenges can be solved, but that we need to start thinking differently about water. We want to make young people interested in the issues we are trying to solve, and of course we want the best and brightest young minds to join us”
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As SIWI’s focal point for the human rights-based approach I sometimes get the question how much those UN resolutions changed the situation. This is almost impossible to answer as we don’t have a benchmark that enables us to compare.
As SIWI’s focal point for the human rights-based approach I sometimes get the question how much those UN resolutions changed the situation. This is almost impossible to answer as we don’t have a benchmark that enables us to compare.
“At Xylem we believe that today’s many water challenges can be solved, but that we need to start thinking differently about water. We want to make young people interested in the issues we are trying to solve, and of course we want the best and brightest young minds to join us”
