This book represents the first effort to conceptually engage with the various dimensions of the right to sanitation. It analyses the right to sanitation in India in the broader international and comparative setting. In a context where sanitation challenges are more severe in India than in many other countries, this book is the first step towards a better understanding of the right to sanitation and its multiple dimensions in India.

• Foreword by Usha Ramanathan


• Acknowledgments


• List of abbreviations and Hindi Terms


• Introduction


• Part I. Conceptual Framework


• Chapter I.: Sanitation: The Last Taboo Becomes A Human Right


• Catarina de Albuquerque


• Chapter II.: Sanitation in South Africa: Policy, Practice, and Contestation


• Jackie Dugard


• Chapter III.: The Right to Sanitation: Multiple Dimensions and Challenges


• Philippe Cullet


• Chapter 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 Areas


• Sujith Koonan


• Chapter VI.: Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Its Potential to Realise the Right to Sanitation


• Lyla Mehta


• Chapter VII.: Right to Sanitation in Urban Areas: Legal Obligations and Institutional Challenges


• Mathew John


• Chapter VIII.: The Politics of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai


• Renu Desai, Colin McFarlane, and Steve Graham


• Chapter 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 Wilson


• Chapter XI.: Invisible Inequalities: an Analysis of the Safai Karamchari Andolan Case


• Shomona Khanna


• Chapter XII.: Rights of Sanitation Workers in India


• P. Sakthivel, M. Nirmalkumar, and Akshayaa Benjamin


• Chapter XIII.: Sanitation, Gender Inequality, and Implications for Rights


• Sujith Koonan and Lovleen Bhullar


• About the Editors and Contributors


• Index

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.