Access to safe sanitation – a right for EU citizens
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video streaming Jan 2008 ; Duration: 8 min. ;
viewable in full screen mode
Ed. Rapsode Production - Paris WECF - Utrecht
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Abstract:
This films not only shows current sanitation problems in the EU and policy changes, but also how modern low cost approaches can provide an immediate solution to the health and environmental problems related to sanitation in rural areas in Eastern Europe.
20 Million Europeans lack safe sanitary facilities. This causes water pollution, diseases and high morbidity, especially among children. The United Nations have declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation; therefore, to put this unknown topic on top the European political agenda, WECF organizes in Brussels on January 29th a High-Level Policy Dialogue on "EU Sanitation Policies and Practices".
WECF director Sascha Gabizon says "It is not acceptable that we spend billions of Euro from cohesion funds, without addressing one of the biggest public health problems for poor people in rural areas, that of a lack of safe sanitation"
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access to sanitation (CI) (DT) (ET) , access to water (CI) (DT) (ET) , ecological sanitation (CI) (DT) (ET) , latrine, toilet (CI) (DT) (ET) , right to sanitation (CI) (DT) (ET) , school (CI) (DT) (ET) , women (CI) (DT) (ET) |
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WECF
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Women engage for a Common Future - Utrecht - Netherlands |
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