UN / UGANDA ANTI-GAY BILL REAX

STORY: UN / UGANDA ANTI-GAY BILL REAX
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 30 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

30 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Dujarric at podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“And also just to flag that a number of UN agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNAIDS have they are appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now passed into law in Uganda.”
4. Wide shot, journalist asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, had recently expressed concern about the further worsening of laws criminalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, including in Uganda. He said these laws violate human rights, and they lead to violence, and they drive people against one another.”
6. Med shot, journalist asking question
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General has been very clear and continuous to call on all member states to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the adherence to the fundamental rights and principles of non-discrimination respect for personal privacy. He again calls on all countries to decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and transgender people everywhere. I mean, to put it clearly, no one should be penalized, jailed, criminalized for whom they love.””
8. Pan right, Dujarric walks away

STORYLINE:

A number of UN agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNAIDS have said “they are appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now passed into law in Uganda,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York.

Briefing journalists in New York today (30 May), the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, had recently expressed concern about the further worsening of laws criminalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, including in Uganda.”

According to Dujarric, Türk said that these laws “violate human rights, and they lead to violence, and they drive people against one another.”

Asked about the reaction of the Secretary-General, Dujarric said, “The Secretary-General has been very clear and continues to call on all member states to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the adherence to the fundamental rights and principles of non-discrimination respect for personal privacy.”

Dujarric continued, “He again calls on all countries to decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and transgender people everywhere.”

The Spokesperson concluded, “to put it clearly, no one should be penalized, jailed, criminalized for whom they love.”