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 ...

Open defecation is an affront to the dignity, health and well-being, especially of girls and women. For example, hundreds of millions of girls and women around the world lack privacy when they are ...

FILE - A woman demonstrates how to clean a toilet bowl at a poor community in Manila, Philippines, on World Toilet Day, an event aimed at improving access to basic sanitation, Nov. 19, 2014.

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 ...

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, said the UN’s ...

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 ...

LAGOS – With millions of Nigeri­ans defecating in the open, experts have warned that the coun­try is at risk of a public health crisis and Neglected Tropical Diseases with the urgent need for ...

So, I congratulate Plateau State and I’m hopeful that the state will join other states that will be Open Defecation free by 2030 because when I met His Excellency, the executive governor, I saw ...