World Toilet Day 2024 event: Sanitation for Peace

The theme of World Toilet Day 2024 is “Sanitation for Peace”, highlighting the essential role of safe toilets and sanitation systems in building a fairer, healthier and more peaceful world.

The Permanent Missions of Singapore, India, Senegal, and South Africa, with UN-Water and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are co-hosting the event to promote World Toilet Day and its global campaign - “Toilets: A Place for Peace” - as part of overall efforts to advocate faster action to improve and protect people’s access to safely managed sanitation.

The 2024 World Toilet Day event will be used to kick-start robust discussion and advocacy initiatives on climate resilient sanitation, and mobilize Member States under the UN System-Wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation.

The event’s objectives are to:

• Create awareness on climate resilient sanitation as a requirement of a peaceful and dignified life.
• Generate momentum for sustained political and financial support to accelerate progress on safely managed and climate resilient sanitation towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 targets.
• Identify ways to advance sanitation within the UN system.

Attendees will include Permanent Missions, experts from the UN and internatinal organizations, private sector representatives and donors.

The event will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00 EST, at the UN HQ, New York.