The implementation of international water law: global, regional and basin perspectives

04.12.2019 09:45 – 18:15

The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the UN Watercourses Convention) and the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the UNECE Water Convention) play a key role in assisting States for adopting and implementing legal instruments at the regional and basin levels. The importance of these two instruments for water diplomacy and cooperation was emphasised in the debates held at the UN Security Council in 2016 where many countries referred to these two main agreements of international water law. In its report “A Matter of Survival”, the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace recommended their ratification and implementation.

The Agenda 2030 and its SDG 6 on water and sanitation aim to promote Integrated Water Resources Management and transboundary cooperation. Moreover, in this context, detailed indicators have been developed to monitor the achievement of SDG 6 as well as the implementation of freshwater legal instruments.

The conference on “The implementation of international water law: global, regional and basin perspectives” will include three panels. The first panel will address the role of universal freshwater agreements in water diplomacy. The second panel will examine the role of basin mechanisms in ensuring the sound implementation of freshwater legal instruments. The third panel will assess how other areas of international law, such as international environmental law and human rights law, can assist with the implementation of international water law.

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