The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged Congolese to end open defecation, the agency’s representative in Congo, Micaela Marques de Sousa, said Thursday in Brazzaville, pointing out that more than ...

A Dalit woman stands outside a dry toilet in an upper caste villager’s home in Mainpuri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. UNITED NATIONS—Ending the practice of defecating in the open, ...

At the Daily Mirror, we believe that climate change is one of the greatest threats that we, as Sri Lankans, will face in the future. Therefore, we intend to provide our readers with local and ...

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 ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

United Nations — Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have "transformational benefits" for some of the world's most vulnerable people, says the UN's partner ...

KALAMAZOO, MI-- The Kalamazoo City Commission’s recent decision to decriminalize urination and defecation in public has drawn the ire of some local business owners and brought the question, “Where can ...

Open defecation is unsanitary. It leads to an estimated 280,000 deaths in impoverished communities each year, according to a study published in the journal Tropical Medicine & International Health in ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. TORONTO — Canadian diplomats felt the need to justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign ...

In a bid to solve some of India's worst health problems, one village in the country's north is fining people caught defecating outside. An estimated 100,000 babies die in India annually due to poor ...

TORONTO — Canadian diplomats felt the need to justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign aimed at reining in outdoor defecation in Ghana amid questions over the use of development ...