UN / 2022 TOP STORIES

STORY: UN / 2022 TOP STORIES
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SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNICEF / WHO / WFP / OCHA / UNHCR
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

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SHOTLIST:

FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UN headquarters exterior

22 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Zoom in, Guterres walking to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“This is the saddest moment in my tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations. I started this meeting of the Security Council addressing President Putin and telling him from the bottom of my heart, stop your troops from an offensive to Ukraine. Give peace a chance, because too many people have already died.”
4. Zoom out, Guterres leaving stakeout

FILE – NEW YORK CITY

5. Wide shot, UN headquarters exterior

02 MARCH 2022, NEW YORK CITY

6. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall with voting under way
7. Med shot, Ukrainian delegation
8. Med shot, Russian delegation
9. Med shot, United States delegation
10. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall
11. Med shot, screen showing votes by member states
12. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall with results on screens
13. Wide shot, members applauding results
14. Med shot, Ukrainian delegation applauding results
15. Med shot, Russian ambassador
16. Med shot, United States delegation applauding results
17. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall with results on screens

CREDIT ON SCREEN – FILE – UNHCR - 27 FEBRUARY 2022, VYSNÉ NEMECKE, SLOVAKIA

18.Med shot, Slovakian authorities welcoming refugees at the border
19.Close up, female holding baby
20. Med shot, female holding baby
21.Close up, female holding baby
22. Various shots, families outside tents

CREDIT ON SCREEN – FILE – OCHA - 18 AUGUST 2022, ODESA, UKRAINE

23. Various shots, Secretary-General António Guterres visiting Odesa Port
24. Various shots, Secretary-General walking on the ship
25. Various shots, Secretary-General and Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure walking
26. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“For months, this port was paralyzed. Ships like those here were within minutes of sailing fully loaded with grains and other cargo. These vessels were ordered back. A critical transportation line from a global breadbasket was cut. The Black Sea Grain Initiative is changing that.”
27. Med shot, Secretary-General and Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure walking

FILE – UNIFEED - 24 JUNE 2022, LISBON, PORTUGAL

28. Various shots, Altice Arena exterior, Ocean Conference’s venue
29. Zoom out, marine ecosystem at Oceanario de Lisboa

FILE – UNIFEED - 26 JUNE 2022, LISBON, PORTUGAL

30. Wide shot, Portugal and UN flags after flag-raising ceremony

FILE – UNIFEED - 27 JUNE 2022, LISBON, PORTUGAL

31. Various shots, Ocean Conference’s family photo
32. Wide shot, Ocean Conference Plenary
33. Med shot, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal and Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya
34. Wide shot, Guterres walks up to the podium
35. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Sadly, we have taken the ocean for granted, and today we face what I would call an Ocean Emergency. We must turn the tide.”
36. Med shot, delegates applauding

FILE – UNIFEED - 19 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

36. Various shot, UN Headquarters exterior with Transforming Education Summit signage
37. Wide shot, mapped projection inside General Assembly Hall
38. Wide shot, education activist Malala Yousafzai at the rostrum
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate / Messenger of Peace, United Nations:
“You must use the power you have to take action. Allocate 20 percent of your budgets to education. High income countries, increase aid, cancel debts and set fair global tax system so that low-income countries can spend more on girls.”
40. Wide shot, Yousafzai at the rostrum

FILE – UNIFEED - 20 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

41. Various shots, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
42. Various shots, General Assembly
43. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“So let’s develop common solutions to common problems — grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being. Let’s work as one, as a coalition of the world, as united nations.”

FILE – UNIFEED - 22 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

44. Wide shot, Mottley walking to dais
45. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados:
“It is just within our power to be able to make that difference and that definable change, and we must decide whether we want to stand for peace, or whether we want to stand for love and whether we want to stand for prosperity, knowing that we choose to do so at the most difficult time and from the most difficult and deep place that we can do so, in a very, very long time.”
46. Wide shot, General Assembly Hall

FILE – UNIFEED – NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT

47.Wide shot, exterior, COP27 venue

FILE – UNIFEED - 20 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT

48. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“This COP has taken an important step towards justice. I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund and to operationalize it in the coming period. Clearly this will not be enough, but it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust.”
49. Various shots, COP27 venue

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WHO – RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

50. Wide shot, exterior WHO Headquarters
51. Close up, exterior WHO Headquarters

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WHO – 22 SEPTEMBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

52. Wide shot, press conference room
53. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO:
“At our media briefings over the past two weeks, I have said that pandemic is not over, but the end is in sight. Both are true. Being able to see the end does not mean we are at the end.”

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WHO - 13 OCTOBER 2022, TBILISI, GEORGIA

54. Wide shot, street scene
55. Med shot, street scene
56. Wide shot, exterior of Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Centre
57. Wide shot, Lela Beradze prepares influenza vaccination for a health worker
58. Close up, Lela Beradze prepares influenza vaccination for a health worker
59. Med shot, Lela Beradze administers the influenza vaccine to a health worker
60. Close up, Lela Beradze applies pressure to the health worker’s injection site on upper arm after vaccination
61. Wide shot, Lela Beradze applies a plaster to influenza vaccination injection site on upper arm
62. Close up, bandaid covers influenza vaccination injection site on upper arm

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WHO – 23 JULY 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

63.Wide shot, press briefing room
64. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.”

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WHO – 16 SEPTEMBER 2022, MILAN, ITALY

65. Wide shot, flags (Italy, Europe, LGBT)
66. Wide shot, street, people, and tramway
67. Wide shot, the queue and interviews under the tents.
68. Med shot, a man follows a volunteer and sits at his table. We see the queue behind them.
69. Wide shot, interviews before to meet the nurses.
70. Dolly movement, the condoms, and preventions cards. Closeup monkeypox card.
71. Dolly movement, volunteers discussing with people.

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WFP – 23 FEBRUARY 2022, MANAJARY, MADAGASCAR

72. Driving shot, destruction the day after Cyclone Emnati

CREDIT ON SCREEN - FILE - WFP – 10 FEBRUARY 2022, MANAJARY, MADAGASCAR

73. Various shots, destruction caused by Cyclone Batsirai
74. Various shot, WFP beneficiary, salvaging her belongings in the remains of her house, raised to the ground by Cyclone Batsirai

FILE - UNIFEED - 10 SEPTEMBER 2022, SINDH / BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

75. Various shots, flooded towns and agricultural lands
76. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I've seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale. I have simply no words to describe what I've seen today.”
77. Various shots, IDP tents
78. Various shots, Secretary-General and Prime Minister with displaced families

FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN - 16 AUGUST 2022, HUDUR, SOMALIA

79. Aerial shots, drought-stricken land
80. Various shots, IDP camp, displaced people cooking, children being tested for malnutrition

FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN - 12 JULY 2022, CHALABI DESERT, KENYA

81. Aerial shot, of camels crossing drought stricken Chalbi desert
82. Various shots, dogs picking at the carcasses of dead animals

FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2022, BAARDEERE, SOMALIA

83. Med shot, Beasley speaking with displaced mothers, Horseed nutrition centre
84. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Climate change has impacted the entire world. And where I stand here in the Horn of Africa is absolutely no difference. We are now looking at 20 million people marching to starvation here in the Horn of Africa, infect where I stand in Somalia 7 million people, and that’s twice as many as there was just 6 months ago’, why? Conflict, extremist groups coupled with the driest season that we have seen in decades, four five rainy seasons have just disappeared, and in the past four decades the driest season we have ever seen in a long time, people are loosing hope, but the World Food Programme, if we get the support, the money we need, we can save lives and we can bring hope.”

FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN - 12 JULY 2022, CHALABI DESERT, KENYA

85. Aerial shot, of camels crossing drought stricken Chalbi desert
86. Various shots, dogs picking at the carcasses of dead animals

FILE – UNIFEED - RECENT

87. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

FILE – UNIFEED - 8 SEPTEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

88. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, United Nations:
“May I now invite representatives to stand and observe a minute of silence in tribute to the memory of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”
89. Wide shot, General Assembly
90. Wide shot, Security Council
91. Pan left, Council members standing
92. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United Kingdom:
“She’ll be remembered, I think, for her dedicated service at home, across the Commonwealth and around the globe. Her extraordinary service fostered peace and friendship worldwide.”
93. Wide shot, Security Council

STORYLINE:

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

After Russia’s declaration of a “special military operation in the Donbass” in February, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to President Vladimir Putin “in the name of humanity” to bring Russian troops “back to Russia” and “not allow [the] start in Europe what could be the worst war since the beginning of the century.”

Speaking to reporters following an emergency meeting of the Security Council on 22 February, Guterres said this was “the saddest moment” in his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

A week later, on 02 March, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution deploring “in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine” in violation of the UN Charter and demanding that Russia “immediately cease its use of force” against eastern European country.

At the emergency session of the General Assembly, 141 member states voted in favour of the resolution, which required a two-thirds majority to pass, while five voted against and 35 abstained.

The resolution demanded that Russia immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. It also deplored its decision to related to the status of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and demanded that Russia reverse the decision.

On the humanitarian side, the UN has responded to the crisis in multiple ways. So far, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has registered 7,891,977 refugees from Ukraine for Temporary Protection or similar national protection schemes in Europe.

By the summer, the UN had also brokered a deal to facilitate the export of grains from Ukraine, called the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Visiting the port of Odessa on 19 August, the Secretary General told reporters, “It is moving to be here in Odesa and it is especially meaningful to be here on World Humanitarian Day. For months, this port was paralyzed. Ships like those here were within minutes of sailing fully loaded with grains and other cargo. These vessels were ordered back. A critical transportation line from a global breadbasket was cut.”

Guterres added, “The Black Sea Grain Initiative is changing that.”

Also in the summer, the UN organized the 2022 Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

At the opening (27 Jun), the Secretary-General said the world faces an “Ocean Emergency”, adding that "we must now turn the tide."

In September, the UN headquarters in New York hosted the Transforming Education Summit.

At the opening, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Malala Yousafzai called on leaders to “not make small, stingy and short-term pledges,” but instead “commit to uphold the right to complete education and close the funding gap once and for all.”

Yousafzai said, “you must use the power you have to take action. Allocate 20 percent of your budgets to education. High income countries, increase aid, cancel debts and set fair global tax system so that low-income countries can spend more on girls.”

Days later, at the opening day (20 Sep) of the General Assembly’s high-level debate in New York, the Secretary-General said that “the world is in big trouble, divides are growing deeper, inequalities are growing wider, challenges are spreading farther.”

Addressing the general debate on 22 Sep, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said, “a Security Council that retains the power of veto in the hands of a few will still lead us to war, as we have seen this year.”

Mottley stated, “It is just within our power, to be able to make that difference and that definable change, and we must decide whether we want to stand for peace, or whether we want to stand for love and whether we want to stand for prosperity, knowing that we choose to do so at the most difficult time and from the most difficult and deep place that we can do so, in a very, very long time.”

In an attempt to address climate change, the UN hosted its 27th Climate Conference (COP27) in November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

At the closing of the event, Guterres said it had “taken an important step towards justice.”

“I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund and to operationalize it in the coming period. Clearly this will not be enough, but it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust,” the Secretary-General added.

The year continued to be marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), saying in September the “pandemic is not over, but the end is in sight.”

According to Ghebreyesus, both statements are true because “being able to see the end does not mean we are at the end.”

Over the summer, WHO also declared that the global monkeypox outbreak represented a public health emergency of international concern.

The year was also marked by natural disasters, such as the Tropical Cyclone Emnati, the fourth tropical storm to hit Madagascar in the beginning of the year, or the floods in Pakistan.

After touring flood afflicted regions on 10 September, the UN chief said, “I have never seen climate carnage on this scale”.

Throughout the year, several UN agencies expanded assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soared after back-to-back droughts, and the threat of famine loomed.

According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), by august nine million more people have slipped into severe food insecurity across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia since the beginning of the year, leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat.

Visiting drought-ravaged Somalia, where over seven million people – close to half the population – are acutely food insecure and 213,000 are already facing famine-like conditions, WFP Executive Director David Beasley said that “climate change has impacted the entire world.”

“We are now looking at 20 million people marching to starvation here in the Horn of Africa, infect where I stand in Somalia 7 million people, and that’s twice as many as there was just 6 months ago’, why? Conflict, extremist groups coupled with the driest season that we have seen in decades, four five rainy seasons have just disappeared, and in the past four decades the driest season we have ever seen in a long time, people are loosing hope, but the World Food Programme, if we get the support, the money we need, we can save lives and we can bring hope,” said WFP chief.

In September, the UN also remembered the late Queen Elizabeth II, with the General Assembly and the Security Council honoring a minute of silence.

At the Council, the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, said the Queen will be remembered “for her dedicated service at home, across the Commonwealth and around the globe.”

“Her extraordinary service fostered peace and friendship worldwide,” Woodward said.