The Right to Sanitation in India

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Description
The decades, and progressively integrated into the international human rights law framework since the beginning of the century, Courts in India have derived this right from the constitutional right to life and repeatedly affirmed its existence. However, key issues persist concerning the realization of the right to sanitation for all; the scope of the right, its links with other rights, such as health, gender equality, and environment, as well as its specific relevance in the Indian context such as manual scavenging.This book represents the first effort to conceptually engage with the right to sanitation and its multiple dimensions in India, as well as its broader international and comparative setting. It critically analyses the contributions of the law and policy framework to the realization of the right in India, including the role of the Swachh Bharat Mission, institutional aspects, initiatives to foster community participation, infrastructure dimensions, wastewater treatment and re-use, manual scavenging and rights of sanitation workers, and gender dimensions.
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Table of Contents
PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
1. Sanitation: The Last Taboo Becomes a Human Right 
     Catarina de Albuquerque
2. Sanitation in South Africa: Policy, Practice, and Contestation 
     Jackie Dugard
3. The Right to Sanitation: Multiple Dimensions and Challenges
     Philippe Cullet
4. Sanitation and State Planning: An Analysis of Five-Year Plans
     Ruchi Shree
PART II REALIZING THE RIGHT TO SANITATION IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS
5. Assessing the Realization of the Right  to Sanitation in Rural Areas
     Sujith Koonan
6. Community-Led Total Sanitation and Its Potential to Realize the Right to Sanitation
     Lyla Mehta
7. Right to Sanitation in Urban Areas: Legal Obligations and Institutional Challenges
     Mathew John
8. The Politics of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai 
     Renu Desai, Colin McFarlane, and Stephen Graham
9. The Environmental Dimension of the Right to Sanitation 
     Lovleen Bhullar
PART III DIGNITY, SAFETY, AND VULNERABILITY
10. Safai Karmachari Andolan: An Insider's Account (Conversation with Bezwada Wilson)
11. Invisible Inequalities: An Analysis of the Safai Karmachari Andolan Case
        Shomona Khanna
12. Rights of Sanitation Workers in India 
       P. Sakthivel, M. Nirmalkumar, and Akshayaa Benjamin
13. Sanitation, Gender Inequality, and Implications for Rights
       Sujith Koonan and Lovleen Bhullar 
Glossary
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
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Author Details
Philippe Cullet, is professor of international and environmental law, SOAS
University of London, UK, and senior visiting fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India.
Sujith Koonan, teaches at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India.
Lovleen Bhullar, holds a PhD in law from SOAS University of London, UK, and is
associated with Environmental Law Research Society, New Delhi, India.