India continues to be the country with the highest number of people (597 million people) practising open defecation. Where women must defecate in the open, they run the risk of sexual assault or rape.

Open defecation, as strange as this may sound to Westerners, offers young women a welcome break from their domestic confines and the oversight of in-laws and husbands. Jagdish is proud of his ...

Over one billion people worldwide practice open defecation, one of the clearest ... populations such as persons with disabilities and women, who are more exposed to sexual violence.

Residents of Charkor Electoral Area in the Wa Municipality are apprehensive of cholera in the area as a result of the lack of public toilets, leading to open defecation ...

“As a result, women are forced to use dangerous open defecation areas, where they risk snake and scorpion bites, among other dangers.” Interestingly, Ibrahim Maalim in Garissa explains that ...

“Once open defecation is tack­led ... There would be reduced rape because women or girls that enter the bush to go and defecate will not go there, if there is a safe toilet that they can ...

Two men in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have been arrested for allegedly killing two Dalit (formerly untouchables) children who were defecating in the open, police say. Roshni, 12 ...

She noted that having safe toilets can end open defecation, which poses major health ... Poor sanitation harmful to health, education of women, children – UNICEF warns ...

With over 48 million Nigerians still practising open defecation and a nationwide shortage of toilets, some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free ...

To discourage open defecation, senior health professionals have called on the state and local governments to make public toilets usage free of charge for the populace. They noted that the required ...

The Federal Government, Thursday, moved the 2025 deadline to end open defecation to 2030, as 48 million Nigerians still practise it. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources and ...