Photo: WaterAid / Guilhem Alandry 7 April marked World Health Day with a focus this year on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), one of the...
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MHM and Period Poverty: The Price of Being a Woman in Zambia
Photo: WaterAid / Chileshe Chanda You cannot cook, you are unhygienic. You cannot pray, the gods will not hear you. You cannot sleep in the...
A Step Too Little? A Step Too Late?
In March 2019, the UK Government announced changes that would help end period poverty in the UK and overseas. From the provision of free...
WASH and Disability: A Closer Look
Both a cause and a consequence of poverty; disability can seriously impede a person’s right to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene in...
The Undeniable Link: Climate Change and its Impact on WASH
Photo: Asad Zaidi In 2009, Carter Rogers, the CEO of WWF-US, said that the language of water is the language of climate change. With water...
Youth Participation in WASH: Essential for a Sustainable Future
Water is an essential component of sustainable development, having a crucial role in human well-being, socio-economic growth and the health of...
Education: a long-term and sustainable investment in WASH
Photo: SEED Madagascar Education is a right. Every single child should have access to quality education and learning opportunities....
Taboos and Period Poverty, a Silent Epidemic
Photo: WaterAid/ James Kiyimba Globally, ‘menstruation,’ vagina’ and ‘period’ are words and topics that are spoken about in whispers. This is...
Achieving Gender Equality Through Universal Access to Water
Water issues are highly gendered. In most cultures, the responsibility of collecting water and maintaining its hygiene standards falls to women...
Happy Water Action Month 2019!
Photo: End Water Poverty/Zambia's NGO WASH Forum/Kiana Alavi March marks many important and international days of the year. From...
Human Rights to WASH: Step One, Awareness
The lack of access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is not just an infrastructure issue, but the result of inequalities, lack of...
How Privatisation Undermines the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
Photo: Resilience Access to safe water and sanitation has long been internationally recognised as a basic human right, essential for life. But...
Accountability is the Key to Unlocking the Human Rights to WASH
It’s the 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day- this day United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a...
WASH and Watershed Restoration: They Must Go Together
There are countless WASH organisations doing good across the world, working to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But there’s a...
Human Rights ‘WASH’ed away in Palestine
Photo: Muhammad Sabah / B’Tselem Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza has lasted over half a century, and the...