The Minister of State for Environment, Isiaq Salako says the Federal Government is on course to end open defecation by 2025.

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

In parts of India, defecation in the open fields is common An Indian woman has been granted permission to divorce her husband because he would not build a toilet in their home. The woman in her ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised two villages in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh for taking initiatives to make themselves free of open defecation. Akshay Kumar's talked about movie ...

The Oyo State Government says it is targeting an open defecation-free status by 2025 by collaborating with the United Nations Children’s Funds to train stakeholders in the state on the measures ...

Use of SATO pans helped reduce open defecation and has enhanced sanitation levels in Siaya, Homa Bay and counties in Nyanza where previously “we had frequent diarrhea but since all has been well ...

While the little rooms set at the furthest corners of our homes may be deemed as essential, United Nations says that 673 million people still practise open defecation. According to the World ...

Sometimes I take it away and burn it.” Moolchand sees himself as defending a hard-won honor: The district has declared his village “open defecation free.” “People get angry and shout at me ...

Not so many decades ago, rural open defecation rates would have been high in essentially every country,” write Diane Coffey and Dean Spears. “India stands alone today not because it changed, but ...

Ahead of World Toilet Day, which is marked annually on 19 November, WSSCC’s acting Executive Director, Sue Coates, has been speaking to UN News about how to end open defecation. What is open ...

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