The Right to Sanitation in India

Philippe Cullet is Professor of International and Environmental Law, SOAS University of London and Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.Sujith Koonan is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, and University of Delhi.Lovleen Bhullar is a Doctoral Candidate at SOAS University of London and Independent Researcher associated with the Environmental Law Research Society (ELRS), New Delhi.

• Foreword by Usha RamanathanAcknowledgments List of abbreviations and Hindi Terms Introduction Part I. Conceptual Framework Chapter I.: Sanitation: The Last Taboo Becomes A Human RightCatarina de AlbuquerqueChapter II.: Sanitation in South Africa: Policy, Practice, and ContestationJackie DugardChapter III.: The Right to Sanitation: Multiple Dimensions and ChallengesPhilippe CulletChapter IV.: Sanitation and State Planning: An Analysis of Five-year Plans Ruchi Shree Part II. Realising the Right to Sanitation in Rural and Urban Areas Chapter V.: Assessing the Realisation of the Right to Sanitation in Rural AreasSujith KoonanChapter VI.: Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Its Potential to Realise the Right to SanitationLyla MehtaChapter VII.: Right to Sanitation in Urban Areas: Legal Obligations and Institutional ChallengesMathew JohnChapter VIII.: The Politics of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in MumbaiRenu Desai, Colin McFarlane, and Steve GrahamChapter IX.: The Environmental Dimension of the Right to Sanitation Lovleen Bhullar Part III. Dignity, Safety, and Vulnerability Chapter X.: Safai Karamchari Andolan: An Insider's Account Bezwada WilsonChapter XI.: Invisible Inequalities: an Analysis of the Safai Karamchari Andolan CaseShomona KhannaChapter XII.: Rights of Sanitation Workers in India P. Sakthivel, M. Nirmalkumar, and Akshayaa BenjaminChapter XIII.: Sanitation, Gender Inequality, and Implications for Rights Sujith Koonan and Lovleen Bhullar About the Editors and ContributorsIndex

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