Our New Visiting Fellow: Dominique Giselle Luchsinger Faret

Carrying out a fellowship at the Geneva Academy is a great opportunity to learn and connect with high-level researchers, allowing me to expand my knowledge of human rights, with a particular focus on ESCR.

The Geneva Academy is a cosmopolitan and interesting community that offers the possibility to participate in key discussions on human rights. I will also participate as a lecturer in the training course Building Back Better: A Focus on the Right to Health and the Right to Food.

During this fellowship, the focus of my research will be on deepening the understanding of the interrelation of the right to water and sanitation and other rights such as the right to food, as well as analysing the relevance of including the right to water and sanitation in National Constitutions for its full realization. I will be taking as an example the Chilean Constitutional Convention currently in progress.

Access to water is essential to achieve almost every other human right. Consequently, the recognition and protection of the human right to water and sanitation should be a priority for all countries, but unfortunately, not every national constitution recognizes and guarantees this right.

I hope that this research will be a small contribution to highlighting the importance of full recognition of the human right to water and sanitation.

I expect to advance in my research and to learn points of view from more experienced researchers about the topics of my investigation, all of which will be very enriching.