What is World Toilet Day?
World Toilet Day is a day to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis – a topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos. Today, 2.4 billion people are struggling to stay well, keep their children alive and work their way to a better future – all for the want of a toilet.
The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone everywhere has access to toilets by 2030. This makes sanitation a global development priority.
In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated November 19 as World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day is coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.
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Take Action
Wherever you are and whatever you do on World Toilet Day, make it about toilets.
Push the issue
Download all the free World Toilet Day posters, logos and memes to help get the message out on everything from your office noticeboard to your Facebook profile.
Dance at Work
This is a celebration of sanitation. So, get up, get down, and post a video of you and your friends doing the #ToiletDance!