GENEVA, November 19 (UNHCR) - Dominique Porteaud is UNHCR's senior water and sanitation officer. The French national, who has forestry and public health engineering degrees, visits refugees camps and ...

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung heroes ...

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn't the worst ...

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International South Africa has voiced strong disappointment over the Basic Education Department's failure to meet its deadline for eradicating school pit latrines. READ: ...

Visitors to some of the more rustic forest preserves in DuPage County still have to use the nearest pit latrine when nature calls. If that sounds like an iffy proposition, relief is in sight. The ...