WHO and UNICEF on behalf of the UN-Water World Toilet Day Campaign - Defeat DD

A dark silhouette of a city skyline set against a cloudy sky. Tall buildings with distinctive shapes are visible, including skyscrapers and what appears to be a tower. The skyline creates a stark contrast with the lighter sky above.

A person in a blue hijab stands outside behind walls made of vertical wooden sticks, next to a concrete slab with a blue-painted hole, which appears to be a latrine. The ground is bare and the walls create narrow pathways. The sky is grey.

World Toilet Day 2023: a time to remember that diarrhoeal disease is a global health crisis targeting our children

Sanitation is a human right and yet 3.5 billion people still have no safe toilets and 419 million still have to defecate in the open.