Indian women must pay for toilet which men use for free
Nearly half of India’s population goes to the toilet in the open. Women find it particularly difficult because even if toilets are available, women must pay to use them whereas men can urinate for free. The government has voted to change this but change comes slowly. Some women have started a “right to pee” movement in India to put pressure on legislators. The United Nations says that 2.4 billion people do not have adequate sanitation and one billion people still defecate in the open. Women and girls risk rape and abuse because they have no toilet that offers privacy, it says.
