Health
World Toilet Day 19 November
Breaking the Taboos
UNITED NATIONS (Source: UNITED NATIONS)
UNITED NATIONS
(Source: UNITED NATIONS)
(Source: UNITED NATIONS)
World Toilet Day, on 19 November, is about taking action to reach the 2.4 billion people living without a toilet. The theme of World Toilet Day 2016 is “˜toilets and jobs´, focusing on how sanitation, or the lack of it, can impact people´s livelihoods.
Sanitation is a global development priority. The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone everywhere has access to toilets by 2030.
Toilets play a crucial role in creating a strong economy, as well as improving health and protecting people´s safety and dignity, particularly women´s and girls´.
Sanitation is a global development priority. The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone everywhere has access to toilets by 2030.
Toilets play a crucial role in creating a strong economy, as well as improving health and protecting people´s safety and dignity, particularly women´s and girls´.
The UN and its partners are getting the message out that toilets save lives, increase productivity, create jobs and grow economies.
Top facts :
* 2.4 billion People live without improved sanitation (World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF 2015).
* One in ten people has no choice but to defecate in the open (WHO/UNICEF 2015).
* Diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children every year (WAS-Hwatch 2016).
Top facts :
* 2.4 billion People live without improved sanitation (World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF 2015).
* One in ten people has no choice but to defecate in the open (WHO/UNICEF 2015).
* Diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children every year (WAS-Hwatch 2016).
* Disease transmission at work mostly caused by poor sanitation and hygiene practices, causes 17% of all workplace deaths (International Labour Organization (ILO) 2003).
* Loss of productivity due to illnesses caused by lack of sanitation and poor hygiene practices is estimated to cost many countries up to 5% of GDP (Hutton 2012)
Source : United Nations
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Yasmina BEDDOU
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* Loss of productivity due to illnesses caused by lack of sanitation and poor hygiene practices is estimated to cost many countries up to 5% of GDP (Hutton 2012)
Source : United Nations
Ruby BIRD
http://www.portfolio.uspa24.com/
Yasmina BEDDOU
http://www.yasmina-beddou.uspa24.com/
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