Toilet als mensenrecht
In Peking is er een conferentie geopend waarop de problemen van het toilet als fundamenteel mensenrecht worden aangekaart. Er is waarachtig een Wereldtoilettenorganisatie die dat mensenrecht wil promoten. Misschien een idee voor de volgende actie van 11.11.11?
Citaat:
Toilet summit opens in Beijing
By Louisa Lim
BBC, Beijing
The fourth world toilet summit has opened in Beijing with declarations that having a loo is a human right.
Four hundred delegates from around the world are spending three days discussing the humble water closet.
At the opening ceremony, Chinese officials admitted their public amenities are not up to the mark.
Organisers say it is an attempt to break the taboo surrounding toilets, which is preventing developing countries from tackling the issue.
The founder of the World Toilet Organisation, Jack Sim, said that when it came to sanitation, people ought to demand more.
"The entire toilet movement is taking on the world scale. People are saying, 'We want good toilets'....because you see a toilet is a basic human right and this basic human right has been neglected. So the world deserves better toilets," he said.
Host China is famous for its smelly toilets and officials admitted that 60% of foreign visitors are dissatisfied with Chinese loos. But it seems the next revolution in the Chinese capital will transform its WCs with large scale investment and building planned before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games in 2008.
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