Photos: Media for Community Empowerment According to WHO/UNICEF, only 57% of Tanzania’s 57 million population have access to basic water...
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Clean toilets for girls in rural Nigeria
Photos: WaterWide Nigeria Raising awareness on the health challenges girls in rural areas face as a result of poor sanitary systems, the need...
Breaking the silence: demystifying menstruation myths and taboos
Menstruation is a daily reality for millions of women and girls around the globe. A natural biological process, which should dignify women and...
Unjust and unequal: new statistics on WASH access levels
Photo: WaterAid/ Eliza Powell In 2010, we celebrated the declaration of access to water and sanitation as a human right at the United Nations...
Chennai water woes: 10 million people living through the worst water crisis
Photo: REUTERS / P. Ravikumar “Water for sanitation is scarce. Laundry and bathing are nothing short of luxury, IT sector companies have asked...
WASH Education: Key to Unlocking SDG6 in Nigeria
Photos by Hope Spring Water Every child with access to education spends an average of six hours a day in school. However, 50% of schools in...
Menstrual Hygiene: Starting the Conversation
Photos by SEED Madagascar Imagine you start bleeding from somewhere you have never before. How do you feel? Scared? Confused? You go to someone...
A Decisive Mandate for People and Planet
The European elections that took place on 23-26 May were probably the most crucial ones since 1979, the first time when the Members of the...
Legal activism, research and advocacy to catalyse change: The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)
Photos: SERI The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) is a non-profit organisation and public interest law clinic that...
Water and Youth: StandUp4Water
Photo: WaterAid/ James Kiyimba Writing this from a perspective of a German female under 30, I might be considered young. However, when...
A Green New Deal for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Photo: WaterAid/ Sam Vox On 23 April, Michel Barnier, called for a Green New Deal for Europe urging policy-makers to better protect...
Les droits à l’eau et à l’assainissement en France: quelles réalités?
Bidonville de Canéjan (Gironde), Aout 2018. Photographie de Félicie Gaudillat et Hippolyte Radisson, IJBA Blog rédigé par Edith...
StandUp4Water and for Women’s rights: European Parliament to support joined implementation of SDG 5 and 6
Photo: WaterAid / Sam Vox The connection between women empowerment, gender equality and access to water and sanitation is now well...
Period Matters Project: Empowerment Through Reusable Sanitary Pad Production
The Period Matters Project provides access to reproductive health information and sustainable, clean and safe options for menstrual hygiene...
Period: A Simple Conversation
We need to talk! Don’t worry, it’s nothing scary. It’s just about periods! It’s a conversation that we to need have at some point; so why not...