UN / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN SITUATION

STORY: UN / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, UN exteriors
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Over 5000 women, men and children killed, and millions displaced. Sudan is now home to the highest number of internally displaced people in the world with at least 7.1 people, including an estimated 3.3 million children uprooted from their homes.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“Civilians and civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, places of worship, water and electricity installations have been targeted, damaged and destroyed. There have been shocking accounts of widespread rape and sexual violence, there must be accountability for these crimes, as well as medical and psychosocial support for survivors.”
6. Med shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA):
“Since the conflict began, we have reached 3.5 million people. But this amounts to only 19 percent of the 18 million people we are targeting for humanitarian assistance or protection. Our ability to operate is hampered by the highly dangerous and complex operating environment, perhaps the most so the world today, as well as access restrictions and bureaucratic impediments. We were able to restore access from Port Sudan to Darfur through intensive negotiations and I thank those involved in providing those approvals.”
8. Med shot, meeting room
9. SOUDNBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Our colleagues working inside Sudan are reporting that these 4 million freshly displaced people are increasingly congregating around distribution points where WFP and other organizations are distributing food, for example, because that is the only place they can get support. And as our own operations move across frontline, basically, trying to navigate the incredible challenges and security, the people move with them.”
10. Wide shot, meeting room

STORYLINE:

The United Nations, the Governments of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the State of Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the European Union and the African Union convened today (20 Sep) in New York, a High-level Ministerial side event on the margins of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region.

Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said, “Over 5000 women, men and children killed, and millions displaced. Sudan is now home to the highest number of internally displaced people in the world with at least 7.1 people, including an estimated 3.3 million children uprooted from their homes.”

According to her, “civilians and civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, places of worship, water and electricity installations have been targeted, damaged and destroyed.”

She continued, “there have been shocking accounts of widespread rape and sexual violence, there must be accountability for these crimes, as well as medical and psychosocial support for survivors.”

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said, “since the conflict began, we have reached 3.5 million people. But this amounts to only 19 percent of the 18 million people we are targeting for humanitarian assistance or protection.”

He continued, “our ability to operate is hampered by the highly dangerous and complex operating environment, perhaps the most so the world today, as well as access restrictions and bureaucratic impediments.”

Griffiths also said, “we were able to restore access from Port Sudan to Darfur through intensive negotiations and I thank those involved in providing those approvals.”

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said, “our colleagues working inside Sudan are reporting that these 4 million freshly displaced people are increasingly congregating around distribution points where WFP and other organizations are distributing food, for example, because that is the only place they can get support.”

He added, “and as our own operations move across frontline, basically, trying to navigate the incredible challenges and security, the people move with them.”

“Our colleagues working inside Sudan are reporting that these 4 million freshly displaced people are increasingly congregating around distribution points where WFP and other organizations are distributing food, for example, because that is the only place they can get support. And as our own operations move across frontline, basically, trying to navigate the incredible challenges and security, the people move with them.”