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India Has More Cell Phones Than Toilets :: When Globalization Stomps on Human Rights
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‘It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet,’ said Zafar Adeel, a director at the UN University.
UN University said it would cost an estimated 358 billion dollars to build toilets for half the world population between now and 2015. Each toilet costs 300 dollars.
The World Health Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund said programmes to provide toilets have fallen behind schedule worldwide and the 2015 goal may not be reached.
