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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend together with former UNHCR chief Sadako Ogata a special meeting on human security. UNTV 

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DATELINE: 7 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY

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RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters, North Lawn Building

7 MARCH 2013, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is more important than ever to find comprehensive solutions to the world’s interlinked problems. You cannot end poverty without empowering women and girls; you cannot establish lasting peace without respect for human rights; you cannot increase prosperity or address climate change without transforming the world’s energy systems. We have to advance on all fronts.”
4. Wide shot, dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The human security approach recognizes the links between peace and development and human rights. The Fund’s projects have enabled communities around the world to make the transition towards peace and sustainable development. They have succeeded because they focus on people’s needs. They draw on experts from different disciplines and different agencies. They transcend what we may think of as traditional humanitarian or development work.”
6. Wide shot, audience applause
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sadako Ogata, Honorary Chair of the Advisory Board on Human Security (ABHS):
“The concept of human security has now evolved to a powerful tool for protecting and empowering people. Through applying this concept the international community has come to recognize that the survival, livelihood, and dignity of people serve as the basis for achieving peace, development, and human progress.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room

STORYLINE:

Secretary-General Ban K-moon today (8 May) said it was “more important than ever to find comprehensive solutions to the world’s interlinked problems.”

Speaking to a High-Level Event on Human Security held at the ECOSOC Chamber at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Ban said “you cannot end poverty without empowering women and girls; you cannot establish lasting peace without respect for human rights; you cannot increase prosperity or address climate change without transforming the world’s energy systems.”

He added that “we have to advance on all fronts.”

The Secretary-General told the meeting that the human security approach “recognizes the links between peace and development and human rights” and noted that projects financed by the UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) “have enabled communities around the world to make the transition towards peace and sustainable development.”

The Fund is managed by the Human Security Unit (HSU), established in May 2004 in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The Honorary Chair of the Advisory Board on Human Security (ABHS), Sadako Ogata, told the meeting that the concept of human security has “evolved to a powerful tool for protecting and empowering people.”

Ogata, who is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said that “through applying this concept the international community has come to recognize that the survival, livelihood, and dignity of people serve as the basis for achieving peace, development, and human progress.”

On 10 September 2012 Member States gathered at the General Assembly and adopted resolution 66/290 on human security. The resolution agrees that human security is an approach to assist Member States in identifying and addressing widespread and cross-cutting challenges to the survival, livelihood and dignity of their people.
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