Prison for poo is a case of a broken system punishing the poor. Nigeria’s sanitation crisis is stark. The Federal Government’s Clean Nigeria: Use a Toilet Campaign revised its initial target of ending ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Human defecation remains a taboo subject, despite the fact that 2.5 billion people lack toilets, causing a global health crisis that kills more than a million children each year.

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

James Harper studies sanitation and other basic human needs in partnership with non-profit organizations, like iDE on this study, around the world through his business, Realize Research, LLC. Everyone ...