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Myanmar - IYS

International Year of Sanitation videos from Myanmar

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Videos submitted by member states towards the eighteenth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development. CSD-18 home page http://bit.ly/9jMuEw . Issues for this session include Waste Management, Chemicals, Transport, Mining, Sustainable Consumptions and Production Patterns, in how they affect the environment and the world we live in.

* Videos do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the United Nations Secretariat. The designations and terminology employed may not conform to UN practice and do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Organization.

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hand washing - IYS

Videos submitted to the International Year of Sanitation which address hand washing (handwashing)

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IYS - International Year of Sanitation

In May 2005, at the 13th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-13), the international community agreed to improve access to sanitation, water, and human settlements.

In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly designated 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS).

The overall objective of IYS is to accelerate progress in providing adequate basic sanitation for the 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack
access to this fundamental human right.

Access to sanitation is vital to ensuring health, dignity and sustainable social and economic development for the worlds poorest citizens.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the worlds population without sustainable access to basic sanitation.

At current rates of progress this target will not be met. IYS was to help position the issue of sanitation more prominently on the global agenda by raising the issues profile with politicians, civil society, the media and the general public. IYS focused on the need to take immediate, effective action in order to boost the rate at which sanitation is achieved, so as to put the global community on track to meet the MDG target.

In this playlist you will find videos produced for the IYS. These videos address issues pertaining to hygiene, sanitation, proper disposal of refuse, and hand washing - among other sanitation related topics.