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UN / HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAUNCH

The UN launches a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge. UNTV / FILE

Duration:02:05Date:31 August 2010

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STORY: UN / HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAUNCH
TRT: 2.05
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 31 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior New North Lawn Building

31 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, Ban Ki-moon enters conference room
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Every year, thousands of people, mainly women and children, are exploited by criminals who use them for forced labour or the sex trade.  No country is immune. Almost all play a part, either as a source of trafficked people, transit point, or destination.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“One of the plan’s most important elements is the creation of a United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for those who are trafficked, especially women and children. The Fund aims to help governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations provide these vulnerable people with protection and support for their physical, psychological and social recovery.”  
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Empowering women, fighting discrimination, reducing poverty, keeping children healthy and out of conflict zones. The progress we are making in these respects is also helping to end human trafficking and exploitation. But as I speak, thousands of people are living as slaves. They need our help, now.”
  
FILE / UNICEF / DECEMBER 2009, PARAKOU, BENIN

9. Wide shot, two children sitting on edge of road
10. Pan left, boy walking on road
11. Med shot, children in marketplace
12. Pan right, girl walking through market place
13.  Wide shot, people in marketplace

FILE - UNICEF - 20 NOVEMBER 2008, NATAL, BRAZIL

14. Wide shot, girl sitting on the curb of a street approached by man

FILE - UNICEF - 4 NOVEMBER 2008, GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA

15. Wide shot, dimly lit street corner with two girls being approached by men

FILE / UNICEF / 19 OCTOBER 2008, BISHKEK, KYRGYZTAN

16. Med shot, children in centre for homeless (blurred faces)

STORYLINE:

The United Nations (UN) today launched a global action plan to combat human trafficking, with senior UN officials urging that governments worldwide take coordinated and consistent measures to try to defeat the scourge.

The plan, launched at a high-level meeting of the General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, calls for integrating the fight against human trafficking into the UN’s broader programmes to boost development and strengthen security around the world.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates that thousands of people, mainly women and children, were exploited by criminals who used them for forced labour or the sex trade, adding that no country was immune.

The plan calls for the setting up of a UN voluntary trust fund for victims of trafficking 
and aims to help governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations provide vulnerable people with protection and support for their physical, psychological and social recovery.

The action plan – which focuses on preventing trafficking, prosecuting offenders and protecting victims – also stresses the importance of obtaining more research, data and analysis about the problem.

Ban noted that by empowering women; fighting discrimination; reducing poverty; and keeping children healthy and out of conflict zones the organization was also helping to end human trafficking and exploitation.

He also said that the only way to succeed is to strengthen partnerships between States, organizations and programmes, such as the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, known as UN.GIFT since its creation in early 2007.

The UN has estimated that more than 2.4 million people are currently being exploited as victims of human trafficking.

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