BBC NEWS | Health | Ministers launch fluoride drive
BBC NEWS | Health | Ministers launch fluoride drive Like WOAH. Thats a scary proposition. I can’t believe it’s even seriously being considered. I’ll look after my own teeth, thanks!
Water
There is no current universal human right to water, binding or not, enshrined by the United Nations or any other multilateral body. In November 2002, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued a non-binding comment affirming that access to water was a human right:
“ the human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity. It is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights. ” —
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This principle was reaffirmed at the 3rd and 4th World Water Forums in 2003 and 2006. This marks a departure from the conclusions of the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, which stated that water was a commodity to be bought and sold, not a right.[113] There are calls from many NGOs and politicians to enshrine access to water as a binding human right, and not as a commodity.
