{"id":5601,"date":"2016-08-25T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2016-08-25T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T08:20:30","slug":"un-inaugurates-transgender-friendly-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/un-inaugurates-transgender-friendly-toilets\/","title":{"rendered":"UN inaugurates transgender-friendly toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lalitapur (Pahichan) August 25 &#8211;\u00a0United Nations Nepal Office has built an all gender toilet on its premises. The toilet came into use from <span data-term=\"goog_178952232\">Wednesday<\/span>.\u00a0Jens Wandel, Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP\u2019s Bureau of Management Services, UN Resident Coordinator Velerie Julliand, UNDP Country Director Renaud Meyer jointly inaugurated toilet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaki<a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Transgender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5603\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Transgender-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Transgender\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Transgender-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Transgender.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ng to Pahichan Online after the inauguration, Meyer said with the all gender restroom, UN wishes to offer an example\u00a0on how the legal and constitutional provisions ensuring rights of LGBTI community could be translated into concrete efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Executive Director of Blue Diamond Society Manisha Dhakal thanked UN for the construction of such toilet.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/UN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5604\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/UN-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"UN\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/UN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/UN.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0She said there should be public toilets for the transgender everywhere.\u00a0 Due to the lack of such toilets, she said, transgender persons are exposed to violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to her, members of this community fear to go into male-female binary toilets. Dhakal said though the rights of transgender persons have been mentioned in the constitution, its implementation is very weak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another transgender Elyn Bhandari said due to the lack of transgender-friendly toilets, members of this community are facing a lot of problems. \u201cAs I am a male transgender, I face difficulties to use the toilets,\u201d Bhandari said. \u201cThere are no toilets for transgender persons, there should be easy access to toilets,\u201d Bhandari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lalitapur (Pahichan) August 25 &#8211;\u00a0United Nations Nepal Office has built an all gender toilet on its premises. The toilet came into use from Wednesday.\u00a0Jens Wandel, Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP\u2019s Bureau of Management Services, UN Resident Coordinator Velerie Julliand, UNDP Country Director Renaud Meyer jointly inaugurated toilet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,621,490,3],"tags":[203,458,764,525,705],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-slider","category-society","tag-blue-diamond-society","tag-transgender","tag-un","tag-undp","tag-united-nations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}