TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reiners, Nina
T1  - Despite or because of contestation?
BT  - how water became a human right
JF  - Human rights quarterly : a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2021.0021
SN  - 0275-0392
SN  - 1085-794X
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
SP  - 329
EP  - 343
PB  - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
CY  - Baltimore
ER  -