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Did you know that half of humanity lives in medieval conditions, with no clean, safe or private place to go to the toilet?
On July 2010, the UN General Assembly adopted a groundbreaking resolution officially recognizing sanitation – access to, and use of, excreta and wastewater facilities and services – as a human right. Because denying access to sanitation is denying basic human rights.
Lack of sanitation obstructs the right to life and health.
Human excreta (efterladenskaber) encourages the transmission of many infectious (smitsomme) diseases including cholera, typhoid, hepatitis (leverbetændelse), polio, cryptosporidiosis (parasitsygdom, der rammer indvoldene), and ascariasis (udbredt parasitlidelse, der kommer ind med rundorme).
Diarrhea – a disease directly related to poor sanitation – kills one child every 20 seconds, i.e. more than 4.000 children everyday. This amounts to more deaths than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
Lack of sanitation hampers the right to education.
443 million school days are lost every year due to sanitation and water related issues. Inadequate school sanitation facilities are a common barrier to school attendance, especially for girls.
Lack of sanitation thwarts (lægger sig i vejen for) the right to dignity.
Sick and elderly people face a loss of dignity when sanitation facilities are not available in the near vicinity (nærområdet).
Lack of sanitation hurts and kills. Yet there is a shortage of funding.
According to the OECD, only 5,5 per cent of development aid was aimed at water and sanitation in 2009, compared to 8 percent in 1990.
As one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG = 2015 Målene), Member States of the United Nations committed to halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015.
But if the current trend continues, it is estimated that the MDG sanitation target will not be met until 2049!
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http://www.unric.org/en/sanitation/27281-sanitation-as-a-human-right
Begynd fra: “This situation is even less tenable (holdbar)….”
Kilde: FN (UNRIC)
