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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian07 Jan 2016 9:03 p.m. PST

More than 600 villages, home to more than half a million people, have been declared "open-defecation free" as a result of a major program aimed at boosting the number of Cambodians who have access to hygienic toilets, according to Plan International.

In five targeted provinces – Kampong Cham, Kampong Speu, Takeo, Svay Rieng, and Kandal – 634 villages, housing a total of 530,000 people, declared that they had abandoned the practice of outdoor defecation between 2012 and the end of last year, according to Plan International's senior coordinator, Suthavaridh Lempho…

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It sounds funny, but it really is progress…

doug redshirt07 Jan 2016 9:51 p.m. PST

Yes it is actually. The number one place that women are raped in India is when they go out into the fields to defecate. Women are required to go out with another woman to try and prevent attacks. Getting toilets into Indian villages has reduced rape.

zoneofcontrol08 Jan 2016 6:47 a.m. PST

"The number one place that women are raped in India is when they go out into the fields to defecate."

Now if they could just do something to reduce the rape problem on planes, trains, busses, streets, work, school, etc.

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