UN / CONFLICT-INDUCED FOOD INSECURITY
03-Aug-2023
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UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, Reena Ghelani, told the Security Council, “The threat of famine - people starving slowly to death - must be a red line.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / CONFLICT-INDUCED FOOD INSECURITY
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 03 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
TRT: 4:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 03 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“The threat of famine - people starving slowly to death - must be a red line. And yet the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion last year. This is the highest recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Another 35 million people were on the edge. As in all crisis situations, women and children are the most impacted.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“Armed conflict destroys food systems, shatters livelihoods and drives people from their homes - leaving many extremely vulnerable and hungry. Sometimes these impacts are by-products of war, but all too often they are inflicted deliberately and unlawfully – with hunger utilized as a tactic of war.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“We must redouble efforts to prevent, reduce and end conflict in all its forms. There needs to be a renewed commitment to peace though a reinvigorated multilateral system where Governments, the United Nations and regional organizations work hand-in-hand.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee:
“The solution is to give climate finance a humanitarian face, addressing the finance gap and the delivery gap. The finance gap arises because adaptation is underfunded. It's only 8 percent of all climate finance. Adaptation is geared towards richer countries. So we argue that a set percentage of every adaptation fund should be directed to fragile and conflict States. We also argue that donors need to increase the ratio of grants to concessional funding.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“This council is charged with maintaining international peace and security. And we simply cannot preserve peace and security without strengthening food security. Each of us has a responsibility to act.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“Hunger must not be weaponized.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“Every member of this council, every member of the United Nations should tell Moscow enough. Enough using the Black Sea as blackmail. Enough treating the world's most vulnerable people as leverage. Enough of this unjustified unconscionable war.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of State:
“First, food insecurity is preventable. Preventing food insecurity and famine is a political choice. Bringing food insecurity to an end is a collective endeavor. No one should experience famine and conflict. International humanitarian law is clear, parties to armed conflict must take constant care to spare the objects necessary to produce food and drinking water. And they must never target civilian objects.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Agyeman, Ghana's Representative to the United Nations:
“We call on the international community and donor agencies to respond to the underfunded humanitarian response plans (HRP) for African countries and to prioritize the implementation of humanitarian response plans for countries in West Africa and the Sahel by helping to meet the US$3.5 billion target required to tackle the increasing humanitarian needs.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“For its part, Russia is ready to share its expertise with African States and other interested in developing countries in the area of agricultural production and assist in implementing cutting edge technologies. Unlike Western neocolonialists, we are interested in building a more equitable system of resource distribution. So that developing States are not forever hooked on the needle of politically conditioned humanitarian aid from the west which is nothing other than primitive blackmail.”
22. Wide shot, Security Council
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“The threat of famine - people starving slowly to death - must be a red line. And yet the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion last year. This is the highest recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Another 35 million people were on the edge. As in all crisis situations, women and children are the most impacted.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“Armed conflict destroys food systems, shatters livelihoods and drives people from their homes - leaving many extremely vulnerable and hungry. Sometimes these impacts are by-products of war, but all too often they are inflicted deliberately and unlawfully – with hunger utilized as a tactic of war.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator:
“We must redouble efforts to prevent, reduce and end conflict in all its forms. There needs to be a renewed commitment to peace though a reinvigorated multilateral system where Governments, the United Nations and regional organizations work hand-in-hand.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee:
“The solution is to give climate finance a humanitarian face, addressing the finance gap and the delivery gap. The finance gap arises because adaptation is underfunded. It's only 8 percent of all climate finance. Adaptation is geared towards richer countries. So we argue that a set percentage of every adaptation fund should be directed to fragile and conflict States. We also argue that donors need to increase the ratio of grants to concessional funding.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“This council is charged with maintaining international peace and security. And we simply cannot preserve peace and security without strengthening food security. Each of us has a responsibility to act.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“Hunger must not be weaponized.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States:
“Every member of this council, every member of the United Nations should tell Moscow enough. Enough using the Black Sea as blackmail. Enough treating the world's most vulnerable people as leverage. Enough of this unjustified unconscionable war.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of State:
“First, food insecurity is preventable. Preventing food insecurity and famine is a political choice. Bringing food insecurity to an end is a collective endeavor. No one should experience famine and conflict. International humanitarian law is clear, parties to armed conflict must take constant care to spare the objects necessary to produce food and drinking water. And they must never target civilian objects.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Harold Agyeman, Ghana's Representative to the United Nations:
“We call on the international community and donor agencies to respond to the underfunded humanitarian response plans (HRP) for African countries and to prioritize the implementation of humanitarian response plans for countries in West Africa and the Sahel by helping to meet the US$3.5 billion target required to tackle the increasing humanitarian needs.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“For its part, Russia is ready to share its expertise with African States and other interested in developing countries in the area of agricultural production and assist in implementing cutting edge technologies. Unlike Western neocolonialists, we are interested in building a more equitable system of resource distribution. So that developing States are not forever hooked on the needle of politically conditioned humanitarian aid from the west which is nothing other than primitive blackmail.”
22. Wide shot, Security Council
STORYLINE
UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, Reena Ghelani, told the Security Council, “The threat of famine - people starving slowly to death - must be a red line.”
Ghelani spoke today (03 Aug) in New York at a Security Council meeting on the issue of famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity.
She said that the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion last year, warning that “this is the highest recorded in recent years.”
The Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator further explained, “Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Another 35 million people were on the edge. As in all crisis situations, women and children are the most impacted.”
Ghelani reiterated, “Armed conflict destroys food systems, shatters livelihoods and drives people from their homes - leaving many extremely vulnerable and hungry.”
She continued, “Sometimes these impacts are by-products of war, but all too often they are inflicted deliberately and unlawfully – with hunger utilized as a tactic of war.”
Ghelani highlighted, “We must redouble efforts to prevent, reduce and end conflict in all its forms,” adding that there needs to be “a renewed commitment to peace though a reinvigorated multilateral system where Governments, the United Nations and regional organizations work hand-in-hand.”
David Miliband, President and CEO of International Rescue Committee, also spoke to the Council members.
He noted that the United Nations Development Programme reports that the more amount of conflict, the less money is spent on climate adaptation.
Miliband said, “The solution is to give climate finance a humanitarian face, addressing the finance gap and the delivery gap.”
He further explained, “The finance gap arises because adaptation is underfunded. It's only eight percent of all climate finance. Adaptation is geared towards richer countries.”
The IRC President argued that “a set percentage of every adaptation fund should be directed to fragile and conflict States,” adding that “donors need to increase the ratio of grants to concessional funding.”
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose country is holding the presidency of the Security Council for the month, reiterated that the council is “charged with maintaining international peace and security.”
He said, “we simply cannot preserve peace and security without strengthening food security. Each of us has a responsibility to act.”
Secretary of State Blinken emphasized, “Hunger must not be weaponized.”
He also said, “Every member of this council, every member of the United Nations should tell Moscow enough. Enough using the Black Sea as blackmail. Enough treating the world's most vulnerable people as leverage. Enough of this unjustified unconscionable war.”
United Arab Emirates Minister of State, Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, told the Council members that “food insecurity is preventable. Preventing food insecurity and famine is a political choice.”
She continued, “Bringing food insecurity to an end is a collective endeavor. No one should experience famine and conflict.”
Al Kaabi reiterated, “International humanitarian law is clear, parties to armed conflict must take constant care to spare the objects necessary to produce food and drinking water. And they must never target civilian objects.”
Ghanaian Ambassador Harold Agyeman called on the international community and donor agencies to “respond to the underfunded humanitarian response plans (HRP) for African countries and to prioritize the implementation of humanitarian response plans for countries in West Africa and the Sahel by helping to meet the US$3.5 billion target required to tackle the increasing humanitarian needs.”
Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said, “For its part, Russia is ready to share its expertise with African States and other interested in developing countries in the area of agricultural production and assist in implementing cutting edge technologies.”
He continued, “Unlike Western neocolonialists, we are interested in building a more equitable system of resource distribution. So that developing States are not forever hooked on the needle of politically conditioned humanitarian aid from the west which is nothing other than primitive blackmail.”
Ghelani spoke today (03 Aug) in New York at a Security Council meeting on the issue of famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity.
She said that the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity reached a quarter billion last year, warning that “this is the highest recorded in recent years.”
The Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator further explained, “Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like conditions in seven countries. Another 35 million people were on the edge. As in all crisis situations, women and children are the most impacted.”
Ghelani reiterated, “Armed conflict destroys food systems, shatters livelihoods and drives people from their homes - leaving many extremely vulnerable and hungry.”
She continued, “Sometimes these impacts are by-products of war, but all too often they are inflicted deliberately and unlawfully – with hunger utilized as a tactic of war.”
Ghelani highlighted, “We must redouble efforts to prevent, reduce and end conflict in all its forms,” adding that there needs to be “a renewed commitment to peace though a reinvigorated multilateral system where Governments, the United Nations and regional organizations work hand-in-hand.”
David Miliband, President and CEO of International Rescue Committee, also spoke to the Council members.
He noted that the United Nations Development Programme reports that the more amount of conflict, the less money is spent on climate adaptation.
Miliband said, “The solution is to give climate finance a humanitarian face, addressing the finance gap and the delivery gap.”
He further explained, “The finance gap arises because adaptation is underfunded. It's only eight percent of all climate finance. Adaptation is geared towards richer countries.”
The IRC President argued that “a set percentage of every adaptation fund should be directed to fragile and conflict States,” adding that “donors need to increase the ratio of grants to concessional funding.”
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whose country is holding the presidency of the Security Council for the month, reiterated that the council is “charged with maintaining international peace and security.”
He said, “we simply cannot preserve peace and security without strengthening food security. Each of us has a responsibility to act.”
Secretary of State Blinken emphasized, “Hunger must not be weaponized.”
He also said, “Every member of this council, every member of the United Nations should tell Moscow enough. Enough using the Black Sea as blackmail. Enough treating the world's most vulnerable people as leverage. Enough of this unjustified unconscionable war.”
United Arab Emirates Minister of State, Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, told the Council members that “food insecurity is preventable. Preventing food insecurity and famine is a political choice.”
She continued, “Bringing food insecurity to an end is a collective endeavor. No one should experience famine and conflict.”
Al Kaabi reiterated, “International humanitarian law is clear, parties to armed conflict must take constant care to spare the objects necessary to produce food and drinking water. And they must never target civilian objects.”
Ghanaian Ambassador Harold Agyeman called on the international community and donor agencies to “respond to the underfunded humanitarian response plans (HRP) for African countries and to prioritize the implementation of humanitarian response plans for countries in West Africa and the Sahel by helping to meet the US$3.5 billion target required to tackle the increasing humanitarian needs.”
Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said, “For its part, Russia is ready to share its expertise with African States and other interested in developing countries in the area of agricultural production and assist in implementing cutting edge technologies.”
He continued, “Unlike Western neocolonialists, we are interested in building a more equitable system of resource distribution. So that developing States are not forever hooked on the needle of politically conditioned humanitarian aid from the west which is nothing other than primitive blackmail.”
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