UN / PEACEBUILDING SUSTAINING PEACE

STORY: UN / SYRIA POLITICAL HUMANITARIAN
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 26 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters, exterior

26 JANUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
" People’s sense of safety and security is at a low in almost every country, with six in seven worldwide plagued by feelings of insecurity. The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War. Two billion people, one quarter of humanity, live in places affected by conflict. This is causing grave human suffering, both directly in conflict zones, and indirectly, by adding to poverty and food insecurity and reducing access to education and healthcare."
4. Med shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
" Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict-affected countries were lagging on the SDGs. Projections indicated that by 2030, more than 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor would live in fragile and conflict-affected countries. In other words, conflict and poverty are deeply intertwined. The pandemic has only aggravated this dire situation. The war in Ukraine is devastating the lives of millions of Ukrainians. It has also compounded a food, energy and finance crisis worldwide, especially amongst the world’s most vulnerable people and countries. Recalling the words of the Secretary-General, the world is at a “key inflection point in history”. Rethinking our efforts towards achieving sustainable peace is an absolute necessity."
6. Med shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
" Development deficits drive grievance. They corrode institutions. They allow hostility and intolerance to flourish. When we fail to meet the development needs of our time, we fail to secure peace for our future.The triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution does not merely threaten our environment. It also threatens to unleash destructive forces that drive wedges in our societies, erode social cohesion and ignite instability."
8. Med shot, participants
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission:
"The commission looks forward to further discussions about outcomes of the UN Secretary General's our common agenda, which cause the need to enhance support for National Peace Building priorities and the importance of the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and the inclusion of the youth in peacebuilding processes."
10. Med shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Diago Ndiaye, President, Network on Peace and Security for Women in the ECOWAS region (REFSPECO):
“Putting together a basic industry structure such as community schools, health clinics, these are in tremendous details in community infrastructure. These things are women's burdens and this is important.”
12. Pan right, Security Council

STORYLINE:

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council, “The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War. Two billion people, one quarter of humanity, live in places affected by conflict”.

Addressing the Security Council today (26 Jan) in New York, The Deputy UN chief said, “This is causing grave human suffering, both directly in conflict zones, and indirectly, by adding to poverty and food insecurity and reducing access to education and healthcare.”

She continued, “Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict-affected countries were lagging on the SDGs. Projections indicated that by 2030, more than 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor would live in fragile and conflict-affected countries. In other words, conflict and poverty are deeply intertwined.”

Mohammed also said, “The war in Ukraine is devastating the lives of millions of Ukrainians. It has also compounded a food, energy and finance crisis worldwide, especially amongst the world’s most vulnerable people and countries.”

She recalled the words of the Secretary-General that the world is at a “key inflection point in history”. She said, "Rethinking our efforts towards achieving sustainable peace is an absolute necessity.”

The Deputy Secretary-General pointed out that development deficits drive grievance, “They corrode institutions. They allow hostility and intolerance to flourish.”

Mohammed also said, “When we fail to meet the development needs of our time, we fail to secure peace for our future. The triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution does not merely threaten our environment. It also threatens to unleash destructive forces that drive wedges in our societies, erode social cohesion and ignite instability."

She also noted that it is essential that all peacebuilders, including women and young people, are protected against reprisals and attacks resulting from their work.

Also addressing the Security Council today, Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, said, “The commission looks forward to further discussions about outcomes of the UN Secretary General's our common agenda, which cause the need to enhance support for National Peace Building priorities and the importance of the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and the inclusion of the youth in peacebuilding processes."

Diago Ndiaye, Regional President of the ECOWAS Women's Peace and Security Network (REPSFECO), also addressed the Security Council today. She emphasized, “Putting together a basic industry structure such as community schools, health clinics, these are in tremendous details in community infrastructure. These things are women's burdens and this is important.”