Second, women and girls are more vulnerable to gender-based violence while using latrines without locks, open toilets, or while collecting water. Third, women and girls have specific hygiene needs ...

But for a significant percentage of the world’s population, using pit latrines is done on a daily basis and indeed all they’ve ever known, not something that is simply done for a two year stint.

It has enlisted cricket and Bollywood stars to exhort people to use the new latrines. On the subject of emptying them, the ads are silent. Meanwhile villages keen on ODF status are taking action ...

who reported alarming concerns about the safety of using public latrines. Concerns about the physical safety and cleanliness of latrines, which are often poorly lit and lack adequate security measures ...

At least 3,000 residents of Malembo landing site in Kyesiiga Sub-county, Masaka District, are living in fear due to worsening ...

The party highlighted that despite Guyana being the fastest growing economy, students from as young as five years old are still forced to use pit latrines and lack access to proper sanitation.

It’s a form of facility that many rural communities, remote communities, still use. Our country is transforming, and there will be pit latrines in some areas based on the factors that exist”.

The challenge’s decision to focus on how to use phosphorescent materials to make latrines safer is a direct result of a prior IRC challenge, which underscored how harmful concerns around latrine ...

More than 3,300 of South Africa’s 23,000 public schools still use pit latrines, according to government figures released in March. The rudimentary toilets typically consist of a concrete slab on ...

They live in crevasses and pick one spot to use as a latrine. The use of the same spot over tens of thousands of years creates a layered refuse heap known as a midden that scientists can mine for ...

Locals of some informal settlements in Imenti North constituency have been forced to use flying toilets due to overflowing public pit latrines The use of the flying toilets has since been blamed ...

For long, communities in Turkana County have not been known to use latrines because of beliefs and taboos. The community members preferred answering the call of nature in bushes. But campaigns ...