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If a city's water is stolen. Who will stand up and fight? Read more...
A collaboration of experts has drawn up a new definition on menstrual health to advance advocacy and coherent action. Read more...
My story of empowerment starts from a toilet, or to be precise the lack of it. Read more...
This is the first of a series of blog posts on building resilient WASH systems in fragile contexts. Read more...
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
Le Ministère de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (MEA) a initié des formations en approche fondée sur les droits humains (AFDH) et le genre à l’endroit de 201 élus locaux de douze régions du Burkina Faso. Read more...
Continuing our pursuit to secure the human right to water and sanitation with an inspirational event at the Peace Palace. Read more...
We joined hands with Amnesty International to raise awareness for global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges amongst 10 year olds. Read more...
The drive for reaching SDG 6 has created a big demand from private safe water businesses to help governments supply safe water. Read more...
What would happen if we outlawed and started to punish open air defecation in Burkina Faso? Read more...
The answer lies in four strategic changes in water sector governance. Read more...
Access to water and sanitation is a basic human right. No one, whatever their circumstances, should be forced to live in conditions where these services are not made available. And yet this is the case for many inmates in overcrowded prisons around the world. Read more...
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. Read more...
For Ugandan prisons, investing in WASH means investing in hygiene behaviour change. Read more...
In this blog, I explain the process behind my research on human rights in Burkina Faso's water and sanitation sector. The resulting research report focuses on how the integration of sanitation as a human right in national policies and strategies can improve access to sanitation in rural areas, in... Read more...
What happens when people cannot pay for water and sanitation services? Mostly, we hear about women and girls in low income countries and how they access polluted water from ponds, rivers or hand dug wells. This week, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (USA) made it to international news for... Read more...
IRC believes in a world where water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental utilities that everyone is able to take for granted, forever. But we are concerned about the pervasive issue of violence against women being subsumed under the urgent need to promote public attention to the global... Read more...
A study on whether water sources classified as "improved" are indeed safe triggered debate on the level of effort that needs to go into water quality monitoring and into measures to improve water quality Read more...
In this article John Butterworth explains why better access to water and sanitation will pay dividends in helping the most vulnerable people adapt to climate change. He argues that providing water and sanitation services for everyone builds resilience, and should be key part of the climate change... Read more...