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Access to Toilets - More than a Health Issue

World Toilet Day is about more than sanitation and health - this year's theme of Equality and Dignity reflects the fact that 1 in 3 women do not have access to a safe toilet, exposing them to shame, fear and even violence.

A House Full of Faeces in Khayelitsha

PHOTO ESSAYS: A House Full of Faeces in Khayelitsha

Metres away from the entrance to the Airport Industria depot in Cape Town, the smell of human waste and chemicals is unbearable. Inside, about 100 people in overalls empty portable toilets down a big ...

For many years, Kibera - Kenya's largest informal settlement - has been associated with the "flying toilets". That's when people relieve themselves in black polythene bags and dispose the waste on rooftops, dumping sites and drainage trenches. But things are getting better...

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