{"id":30642,"date":"2019-11-19T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2020-01-09T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:39:33","slug":"mr-toilet-the-worlds-2-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/mr-toilet-the-worlds-2-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Toilet, The World&#8217;s #2 Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Regional Information Centre\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNRIC<\/a>,\u00a0United Nations Office for Project Services <a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/www.unops.org\/&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNOPS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council <a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/www.wsscc.org\/&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSSCC<\/a> welcomed you to the screening of\u00a0&#8220;Mr Toilet, The World&#8217;s #2 Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30844 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/11\/mr-toilet-dvd-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Toilet, the world's #2 man\" width=\"175\" height=\"263\" \/>To a stranger, he\u2019s a guy obsessed with toilets, but to those who know him, he\u2019s \u201cMr. Toilet,\u201d a crusader for global sanitation. Born in the Singapore slums, Jack Sim knows firsthand the agonies of not having a proper loo. Now he\u2019s dedicating his life to a crisis no one dares talk about.\u00a0He founded the World Toilet Organization and spent the last 13 years lobbying 193 countries to raise awareness for proper sanitation. Now he is plunged into his biggest challenge yet when asked to secure 6 million toilets for the \u201cClean India\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The film was followed by a panel discussion with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carolien Van der Voorden,\u00a0Head of Technical Support Unit,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/www.wsscc.org\/&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSSCC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sophie Aujean,\u00a0EU Representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/www.wateraid.org\/us\/&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WaterAid<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Carlos Garriga, Project Manager,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us1.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/click?url=https:\/\/www.wearewater.org\/en\/our-foundation_253356&amp;xid=9170ae2b4e&amp;uid=1332577&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Are Water<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Moderated by:\u00a0Carlos Jimenez, UNRIC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Regional Information Centre\u00a0UNRIC,\u00a0United Nations Office for Project Services UNOPS\u00a0and\u00a0Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council WSSCC welcomed you to the screening of\u00a0&#8220;Mr Toilet, The World&#8217;s #2 Man&#8221; To a stranger, he\u2019s a guy obsessed with toilets, but to those who know him, he\u2019s \u201cMr. Toilet,\u201d a crusader for global sanitation. Born in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713,741],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}