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STORY: UNICEF / EXPLOSIVE WEAPONS POPULATED AREAS
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SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN / NATS
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27 FEBRUARY 2017, QAMISHLI, SYRIA
1. Various shots, child in wheelchair pushed by his friend, children in wheelchairs riding through the main road
MARCH 2022, MOSUL, IRAQ
2. Various shots, schools, houses, and neighborhoods destroyed, West Mosul
OCTOBER 2022, CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE
3. Various shots, destroyed school, child walking, teacher looking at dried flowers placed in a destroyed corridor as a tribute for the civilians killed during the attack to the school
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Mashkun, teacher:
“In March, two schools in our town were utterly destroyed. Since that time, I, as a teacher, do not feel that our children and we are safe. It is essential that the place where they come must be safe. We have to teach children online, and children have to learn online. Although I believe that live communication is more effective and gives children more knowledge.”
OCTOBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
5. Various shots, injured child, Hospital of Saint Nicholas
OCTOBER 2022, CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Mashkun, teacher:
“I feel deep pain because such tragic events took place in our school, and many people who were in this building at that time, heading to the bomb shelter, did not make it and remained forever under the school’s rubble.”
OCTOBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
7. Various shots, injured child, Hospital of Saint Nicholas
STORYLINE:
The heads of three UN entities and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today (14 Nov) urged States to support a new political declaration to protect civilians from explosive weapons in populated areas.
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, and ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric are jointly appealing to States to support the declaration on “Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.”
In conflicts worldwide, civilians continue to endure the devastating consequences of using explosive weapons in populated areas.
These weapons often have effects well beyond their targets when used in cities, towns, and villages.
They claim countless lives and limbs, causing widespread destruction, and deprive people of essential civilian services, such as water and sanitation, electricity, health care, and education.
The new declaration represents a major collective milestone in protecting civilians from the increasing urbanization of armed conflict.
It sends a strong signal worldwide that harming civilians and damaging cities is not a reality we should accept.
It strengthens respect for international humanitarian law, notably by committing signatory States to restrict or refrain from using explosive weapons in populated areas whenever such use may cause civilian harm.
The declaration will be launched at an endorsement conference in Dublin, Ireland, on 18 November 2022 after three years of consultations.
In the last decade, the momentum for a political declaration has increased markedly, including through regional and civil society advocacy initiatives.
Given the high likelihood of indiscriminate and disproportionate effects resulting from their use, the UN and the ICRC have consistently called on all States and parties to armed conflict to avoid the use of heavy explosive weapons in populated areas and to strive to take conflict out of urban centres altogether.
The damage and destruction caused by the use of these weapons all too often result in long-term suffering, such as disability and psychological trauma.
Women, men, girls, and boys are impacted in different ways, but all civilians suffer. This distress can and should be reduced and even prevented.
The human cost of using heavy explosive weapons in populated areas typically reverberates long after the immediate impact, resulting in long-lasting disruption of essential civilian services and prolonged large-scale displacement.
Crucially, achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is at stake.
The destructive impacts of explosive weapons on civilians and civilian homes, facilities, and infrastructure jeopardize several global goals, including reaching food security, ending poverty, and building peaceful and inclusive societies.
Additionally, high levels of explosive ordnance contamination resulting from the use of such weapons in populated areas shatter lives and hamper reconstruction efforts long after hostilities cease.
Large-scale, recurrent, and prolonged displacement also exposes people to grave dangers for their health, security, and well-being.
Ultimately, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, notably weapons with wide-area effects, negates people’s fundamental human rights and threatens the future of entire generations.
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu will represent the UN at the signing ceremony and deliver a message on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to mark the milestone occasion.
President Mirjana Spoljaric will represent the ICRC.
TRT: 2:35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE CHECK SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
SHOTLIST:
27 FEBRUARY 2017, QAMISHLI, SYRIA
1. Various shots, child in wheelchair pushed by his friend, children in wheelchairs riding through the main road
MARCH 2022, MOSUL, IRAQ
2. Various shots, schools, houses, and neighborhoods destroyed, West Mosul
OCTOBER 2022, CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE
3. Various shots, destroyed school, child walking, teacher looking at dried flowers placed in a destroyed corridor as a tribute for the civilians killed during the attack to the school
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Mashkun, teacher:
“In March, two schools in our town were utterly destroyed. Since that time, I, as a teacher, do not feel that our children and we are safe. It is essential that the place where they come must be safe. We have to teach children online, and children have to learn online. Although I believe that live communication is more effective and gives children more knowledge.”
OCTOBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
5. Various shots, injured child, Hospital of Saint Nicholas
OCTOBER 2022, CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Mashkun, teacher:
“I feel deep pain because such tragic events took place in our school, and many people who were in this building at that time, heading to the bomb shelter, did not make it and remained forever under the school’s rubble.”
OCTOBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
7. Various shots, injured child, Hospital of Saint Nicholas
STORYLINE:
The heads of three UN entities and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today (14 Nov) urged States to support a new political declaration to protect civilians from explosive weapons in populated areas.
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, and ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric are jointly appealing to States to support the declaration on “Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.”
In conflicts worldwide, civilians continue to endure the devastating consequences of using explosive weapons in populated areas.
These weapons often have effects well beyond their targets when used in cities, towns, and villages.
They claim countless lives and limbs, causing widespread destruction, and deprive people of essential civilian services, such as water and sanitation, electricity, health care, and education.
The new declaration represents a major collective milestone in protecting civilians from the increasing urbanization of armed conflict.
It sends a strong signal worldwide that harming civilians and damaging cities is not a reality we should accept.
It strengthens respect for international humanitarian law, notably by committing signatory States to restrict or refrain from using explosive weapons in populated areas whenever such use may cause civilian harm.
The declaration will be launched at an endorsement conference in Dublin, Ireland, on 18 November 2022 after three years of consultations.
In the last decade, the momentum for a political declaration has increased markedly, including through regional and civil society advocacy initiatives.
Given the high likelihood of indiscriminate and disproportionate effects resulting from their use, the UN and the ICRC have consistently called on all States and parties to armed conflict to avoid the use of heavy explosive weapons in populated areas and to strive to take conflict out of urban centres altogether.
The damage and destruction caused by the use of these weapons all too often result in long-term suffering, such as disability and psychological trauma.
Women, men, girls, and boys are impacted in different ways, but all civilians suffer. This distress can and should be reduced and even prevented.
The human cost of using heavy explosive weapons in populated areas typically reverberates long after the immediate impact, resulting in long-lasting disruption of essential civilian services and prolonged large-scale displacement.
Crucially, achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is at stake.
The destructive impacts of explosive weapons on civilians and civilian homes, facilities, and infrastructure jeopardize several global goals, including reaching food security, ending poverty, and building peaceful and inclusive societies.
Additionally, high levels of explosive ordnance contamination resulting from the use of such weapons in populated areas shatter lives and hamper reconstruction efforts long after hostilities cease.
Large-scale, recurrent, and prolonged displacement also exposes people to grave dangers for their health, security, and well-being.
Ultimately, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, notably weapons with wide-area effects, negates people’s fundamental human rights and threatens the future of entire generations.
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu will represent the UN at the signing ceremony and deliver a message on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to mark the milestone occasion.
President Mirjana Spoljaric will represent the ICRC.
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