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Public toilets in Niger

Public toilets
A French speaking country, the local words for toilets include toilettes and WC, while the local word for toilet paper is Papier toilette, the word for men's toilet is hommes and the word for women's toilet is femmes.

In 2000, the countries with the lowest sanitation coverage in Africa were Ethiopia, Eritrea, Benin, Congo, Gabon and Niger.

Regional and global situation impacting public toilets in Niger
Public toilet access around the world is most acute in the Global South, with around 3.6 billion people, 40% of the world's total population, lacking access to any toilet facilities. 2.3 people in the the Global South do not have toilet facilities in their residence. Despite the fact that the United Nation made a declaration in 2010 that clean water and sanitation is a human right, little has been done in many places towards addressing this on a wider level.

Public toilets, depending on their design, can be tools of social exclusion. In developing countries, unisex public toilets have been a disaster because they make women feel unsafe and fail to consider local religious beliefs. The lack of single-sex women's toilets in developing countries makes it harder for women to participate in public life, in education and in the workplace.

In developing countries, girls are less likely to attend school once they hit puberty if their school does not have adequate hygiene facilities.

Flush toilets are often only found in affluent areas of developing countries.