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[โ€“] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look up the vote for water as a right

[โ€“] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

press.un.org; GA/10967; 28 July 2010; "General Assembly Adopts Resolution Recognizing Access to Clean Water, Sanitation as Human Right, by Recorded Vote of 122 in Favour, None against, 41 Abstentions"

The draft resolution on the human right to water and sanitation (document A/64/L.63/REV.1) was adopted by a recorded vote of 122 in favour to none against, with 41 abstentions, as follows:

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Abstain: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, Zambia

[โ€“] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Evil China doesnโ€™t want their people to have the right to die of starvation? They take away so many freedoms!