World Water Day
22.03.2010 | Club News, Gallery
Every poo needs a loo, WASH United’s motto on World Water Day.
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More than two hundred people stood up for those who can’t sit down and queued up behind a beautifully decorated wooden outhouse right in front of Germany’s most important national monument – the Brandenburg Gate.
This toilet queue was part of “The World’s Longest Toilet Queue”, a worldwide initiative taking place in more than 70 countries to raise awareness for the 2.5 billion people who still lack access to sanitation organized by WASH United’s partners EndWaterPoverty and WSSCC. The Berlin queue was led by Catarina de Albuquerque, United Nations Independent Expert on the Right to Water and Sanitation and WASH United ambassador, as well as UNSGAB Vice Chair Dr. Uschi Eid and Green Party leader Renate Künast.
Catarina had a busy day in Berlin, meeting both the German Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Guido Westerwelle and Dirk Niebel, to discuss measures for the promotion of the human right to water and sanitation, such as WASH United.
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