UN International Year of Sanitation 2008
Q&A: "Sanitation Is a Political Orphan"
publicatiedatum 06-12-2007
Last month, the Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined forces to declare 2008 the International Year of Sanitation (IYS).
Some 1.5 million children die every year due to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene, while more than a third of the world's population does not have access to basic toilet facilities.
Still, sanitation is one of the least publicised of the eight poverty-focused Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and a variety of associations and U.N. agencies have stepped up to reduce these numbers at least by half by the MDG deadline of 2015.
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Bron: Inter Press Service
