Special Rapporteur seeking Applications for 3rd Human Rights Youth Challenge

Deadline: 30 April 2020

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation is organizing the Third Human Rights Youth Challenge and invites youth aged between 18 to 23 years to create an original submission and youth aged between 24 and 32 years to submit a 2000 word essay on “privaitzation and the human rights to water and sanitation”.

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The Special Rapporteur is looking for submission that examine the involvement of the private sector – namely: businesses – in the water and sanitation sector, from a human rights perspective.

The Special Rapporteur will invite the winner to join and speak at the 45th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2020.

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Scope

The Support of the Reports include:

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Service provision by private companies (for-profit organizations).
Companies in which government owns capital and shares, but where a large proportion of shares are owned by private investors.
Private sector participation with specific focus on service provision.
Reestatization and its risks to human rights.
Both water and sanitation services.
Assess the level of risks and reasons behind those risks that private sector participation bring when for-profit organization are heavily involved in service provision.
The Scope of the project does not include:

Provision by non-profit organizations Informal services Community-led service provision.
State-owned enterprises, i.e. any corporate entity in which the government owns almost all the capital or the voting shares.
Private sector participation in subsidiary activities across the whole water and sanitation cycle by, inter alia, supplying materials and equipment, developing engineering designs and building infrastructure.
Comparative analysis on risks and advantages of water and sanitation provision by public and private entities.
Whether human rights dictates a specific type of model or service provision.
Eligibility Criteria

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15-23 year old: can show their knowledge, understanding and passion about the human rights to water and sanitation by creating an original submission about the human rights to water and sanitation and uploading it to a social media network (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter).
24 – 32 yeas old: The submission will be in a form of an essay focusing on one case study. Participants are free to choose a case, which focuses on various forms and models of private sector participation in the water and sanitation sector and analyse gaps in human rights protection and impact on the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation. Length of essay: 2,000 words in word document (including footnotes, page numbers, heading) Language: English, Spanish and French.
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