Some of us are not aware of the impacts of open-air defecation. We are not even aware of what is open-air defecation. Basically, open-air defecation is the emptying of bowels in an open environment ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - India aims to eradicate open-air defecation by 2012 by building toilets for hundreds of millions of its poor and homeless, well ahead of a global deadline to do so, a ...

In a major step toward improving rural sanitation, 410 villages across 16 union councils of Badin district have been declared free of open-air defecation following the construction of washrooms. The ...

Open defecation Eliminating open defecation, a practice strongly associated with poverty and exclusion, is critical to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sanitation ...

This statistic says it all: 40% of citizens on Earth don’t have toilets. A big part of that number is India and China, but it’s still insane to comprehend as someone from a country that won’t allow ...

Today marks World Toilet Day, an annual United Nations observance of toilets and an occasion to raise awareness about the 4.2 billion people who still lack access to proper sanitation. The UN General ...

SIR: According to the 2018 National Outcome Routine Mapping (NORM) Report, 47 million Nigerians practice open defecation. In other words, one out of four Nigerians engage in open defecation. Nigeria ...

Based on the Joint Monitoring Program report (2014), published by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people in Indonesia practice open defecation, making it the second highest ...

Caroline Akinyi, a member of Bar Agulu Community Group shows members the different types of Unicef-funded SATO toilet bowls at Bar Agulu Health Center. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Mary Achieng walks ...

Accra, May 26, GNA – The Media Foundation Against Open Defecation (M-CODE) is calling on the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to step up the enforcement of regulations against ...