Nigeria’s battle against open defecation has been ongoing for years, with the government setting ambitious targets to end the ...

The M-CODe National Convenor emphasizes that open defecation is not merely a sanitation issue but a human rights concern, ...

with dramatic consequences on human health, dignity and security, the environment, and social and economic development. Over one billion people worldwide practice open defecation, one of the ...

3.5 billion people still live without safely managed sanitation, including 419 million who practise open defecation ... or don’t exist – untreated human waste spreads in the environment ...

stressed the importance of sanitation and clean water as fundamental human rights that should be guaranteed to all citizens. He expressed optimism that by working together, housing defecation will ...

Lagos House of Assembly has called on relevant authorities to address open defecation through massive construction of more ...

LGAs open defecation-free out of 774 By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – AS Nigerians continue to experience waterborne diseases, the ...

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 ...

However, human rights activist Kantona Dadosa feels that open defecation reduction isn’t taken seriously. He blames public health officers for their lack of urgency, saying, “They are slow ...