UNIS/SGSM/1454
14 November 2024
Toilets are fundamental to promoting human health, spurring development, and helping all people, especially women and girls, live their lives in dignity.
But too many members of the human family live without this basic human right. At the current rate, 3 billion people will still live without safely managed sanitation by 2030.
This year’s World Toilet Day shines a light on the threats to sanitation posed by conflict, climate change, disasters and neglect.
I urge all governments to support the United Nations Strategy for Water and Sanitation, prioritize clean water and sanitation across budgets, and invest in climate-resilient infrastructure that can protect these systems in the face of extreme weather.
We must work to expand assistance to developing countries — through both financing and technology — to build and maintain these life-sustaining systems.
And all parties to conflict must stop targeting sanitation and water infrastructure.
Let’s spare no effort to meet our commitment to water and sanitation for all, and ensure that every person in the world can realize this fundamental right.
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The new Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations (Vienna), Vu Le Thai Hoang, presented his credentials today to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), Ghada Waly.
The new Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations (Vienna), Gustavo Zlauvinen, presented his credentials today to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), Ghada Waly.
"This year, renewables are projected to become the world's largest source of electricity generation for the first time. Meanwhile, their prices keep plummeting." — António Guterres
The United Nations lnformation Service (UNIS) Vienna in cooperation with the Foreign Policy and United Nations Association of Austria (UNA-Austria) invites media representatives to a Press briefing on priorities and key events for 2025 of the Vienna-based UN organizations and agencies. Highlights for 2025 from other Vienna-based United Nations organizations will also be publicized at the briefing.
