Powerful women, healthy societies.

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Getting her basics right

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Nearly half the world’s population lacks safe sanitation

500 million women lack necessities to manage their period

810 women die every day of birth and pregnancy complications

30% of women globally experience physical or sexual violence

Nearly every 3 seconds a girl is married before her 18th

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Every woman and girl has the right to safe and clean water and sanitation, bodily integrity and good menstrual health, maternal health and hygiene.

Look back and forward with us! Learn to understand human rights and engage with human right mechanisms, watch the human rights lecture series! Putting WASH First for recovery and resilience Bold and powerful women and girls stand together and speak out to stop (sexual) violence and harassment Making menstrual health more inclusive how and why it matters Listen to all the episodes of the WASH SDG podcast Access to clean water could never be taken for granted Power: is everything going South? Taking the measure of Ariette Brouwer Women empower women: these young indigenous women are ready to change to world

Our programmes in Africa and Asia aim to empower women. We believe that every woman needs certain basics, and every woman has basic rights.

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