UN / ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WRAP
23-Nov-2010
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Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and head of UN Women Michelle Bachelet call for increased corporate sector engagement to deal with the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. UNTV
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STORY: UN / ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WRAP
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“There has been real progress. Across the world, people are mobilizing to stop the abuse of women and girls. This is no longer just the concern of women’s organizations. More and more people realize that gender-based violence is everybody’s problem and that everybody is responsible for stopping it. This year’s observance highlights how business leaders can contribute.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations:
“Women and girls are at the risk of gender based violence throughout their lives. This violence is perpetuated by the people closest to them; intimate partners, family members, colleagues as well as people they have never met. It takes place in rich and poor countries, in urban and rural areas, in situation of peace and conflict and in the aftermath of natural disasters. It takes place in women’s daily lives and we are all responsible, everybody has mentioned, for the essential goal to stop violence against women.”
7. Cutaway, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Debi Nova, Singer/ songwriter:
“My presence here today is a testimony. To me it’s imperative to be part of the Unite campaign and promote equality between men and women. I’m here to voice the message that every single one of us, all of us, deserve love and respect and I want to encourage all the women who are going through a violent relationship to say so, to communicate it because that’s the only way to break the vicious cycle of violence.”
9. Cutaway, audience
10. Wide shot, press conference room
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon D'Agostino, Vice President, Corporate Contributions, Johnson & Johnson:
“The private sector also brings the focus on innovation, focus on matrix, evaluation and understanding what works. We do the work through community based partners and we are delighted today to announce a new two year commitment to working with the trust fund to determine the best evidence based practices and rolling them forward in countries so that we can work together to end violence against women.”
13. Cutaway, journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations:
“Any woman as any man should have a fair trial. It respects the rights of any woman and any man in this sense. And we also believe that there’s no culture or religion that legitimize violence against women or rape or death of women at the hands of abusers.”
15. Wide shot, end of press conference
STORYLINE:
Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and head of UN Women Michelle Bachelet called for increased corporate sector engagement to deal with the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.
Ban’s comments came during an address to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women today (23 November) at UN headquarters. The Day is observed annually on 25 November.
Ban said that mobilizing to stop the abuse of women and girls “is no longer just the concern of women’s organization” but “everybody’s problem.”
In addition to promoting corporate sector engagement, Ban used the occasion to highlight his ‘UNiTE to End Violence against Women’ campaign. Launched in 2008, the campaign calls for all countries to put in place strong laws, action plans, preventive measures, data collection, and systematic efforts to address sexual violence by 2015.
Newly appointed Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet talked about how gender-based violence takes place “in rich and poor countries, in urban and rural areas, in situation of peace and conflict and in the aftermath of natural disasters.”
The UN reported that one in every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Bachelet stressed that the campaign to end the violence remains one of the top issues on the UN agenda.
Costa Rican singer/songwriter and six-time Grammy Award nominee Debi Nova, also present at the observance, encouraged “all the women who are going through a violent relationship to say so, to communicate it because that’s the only way to break the vicious cycle of violence.”
At a press conference later today, Sharon D'Agostino from Johnson & Johnson further emphasized on the importance of private sector engagement in the fight against gender-based violence.
She added that her company is “delighted today to announce a new two year commitment to working with the trust fund (UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women) to determine the best evidence based practices and rolling them forward in countries so that we can work together to end violence against women.”
The trust fund was established by UN General Assembly in 1996 and is managed by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) on behalf of the UN system. It remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism exclusively devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls.
UNIFEM reported that violence against women and girls includes physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse and has many manifestations, from the most universally prevalent forms of domestic and sexual violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy and so-called honour killings.
When asked about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani who was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran, Bachelet said that the UN “believes that there’s no culture or religion that legitimize violence against women or rape or death of women at the hands of abusers.”
Dozens of events will also take place around the world, organized by UN offices working with government and civil society partners, including the regional launch in Bangkok of UNiTE in Asia. Regional components of the campaign have also been established in Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“There has been real progress. Across the world, people are mobilizing to stop the abuse of women and girls. This is no longer just the concern of women’s organizations. More and more people realize that gender-based violence is everybody’s problem and that everybody is responsible for stopping it. This year’s observance highlights how business leaders can contribute.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations:
“Women and girls are at the risk of gender based violence throughout their lives. This violence is perpetuated by the people closest to them; intimate partners, family members, colleagues as well as people they have never met. It takes place in rich and poor countries, in urban and rural areas, in situation of peace and conflict and in the aftermath of natural disasters. It takes place in women’s daily lives and we are all responsible, everybody has mentioned, for the essential goal to stop violence against women.”
7. Cutaway, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Debi Nova, Singer/ songwriter:
“My presence here today is a testimony. To me it’s imperative to be part of the Unite campaign and promote equality between men and women. I’m here to voice the message that every single one of us, all of us, deserve love and respect and I want to encourage all the women who are going through a violent relationship to say so, to communicate it because that’s the only way to break the vicious cycle of violence.”
9. Cutaway, audience
10. Wide shot, press conference room
11. Cutaway, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon D'Agostino, Vice President, Corporate Contributions, Johnson & Johnson:
“The private sector also brings the focus on innovation, focus on matrix, evaluation and understanding what works. We do the work through community based partners and we are delighted today to announce a new two year commitment to working with the trust fund to determine the best evidence based practices and rolling them forward in countries so that we can work together to end violence against women.”
13. Cutaway, journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations:
“Any woman as any man should have a fair trial. It respects the rights of any woman and any man in this sense. And we also believe that there’s no culture or religion that legitimize violence against women or rape or death of women at the hands of abusers.”
15. Wide shot, end of press conference
STORYLINE:
Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and head of UN Women Michelle Bachelet called for increased corporate sector engagement to deal with the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.
Ban’s comments came during an address to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women today (23 November) at UN headquarters. The Day is observed annually on 25 November.
Ban said that mobilizing to stop the abuse of women and girls “is no longer just the concern of women’s organization” but “everybody’s problem.”
In addition to promoting corporate sector engagement, Ban used the occasion to highlight his ‘UNiTE to End Violence against Women’ campaign. Launched in 2008, the campaign calls for all countries to put in place strong laws, action plans, preventive measures, data collection, and systematic efforts to address sexual violence by 2015.
Newly appointed Under-Secretary-General for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet talked about how gender-based violence takes place “in rich and poor countries, in urban and rural areas, in situation of peace and conflict and in the aftermath of natural disasters.”
The UN reported that one in every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Bachelet stressed that the campaign to end the violence remains one of the top issues on the UN agenda.
Costa Rican singer/songwriter and six-time Grammy Award nominee Debi Nova, also present at the observance, encouraged “all the women who are going through a violent relationship to say so, to communicate it because that’s the only way to break the vicious cycle of violence.”
At a press conference later today, Sharon D'Agostino from Johnson & Johnson further emphasized on the importance of private sector engagement in the fight against gender-based violence.
She added that her company is “delighted today to announce a new two year commitment to working with the trust fund (UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women) to determine the best evidence based practices and rolling them forward in countries so that we can work together to end violence against women.”
The trust fund was established by UN General Assembly in 1996 and is managed by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) on behalf of the UN system. It remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism exclusively devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls.
UNIFEM reported that violence against women and girls includes physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse and has many manifestations, from the most universally prevalent forms of domestic and sexual violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy and so-called honour killings.
When asked about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani who was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran, Bachelet said that the UN “believes that there’s no culture or religion that legitimize violence against women or rape or death of women at the hands of abusers.”
Dozens of events will also take place around the world, organized by UN offices working with government and civil society partners, including the regional launch in Bangkok of UNiTE in Asia. Regional components of the campaign have also been established in Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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