UN / QUEEN SOFIA

At the opening session of the 2014 meeting of UNICEF’s Executive Board, Queen Sofía of Spain remembered the Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group and told their parents that “their daughters are our daughters, their pain is our pain, their hope, ours.” UNIFEED - UNTV

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:08
• Production Date: 3 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; YOUTH
• MAMS Id: 1025815

Description

STORY: UN / QUEEN SOFIA
TRT: 2.08
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 3 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

3 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Pan right, from audience to dais
3. Wide shot, Queen Sofía of Spain at her dais
4. Med shot, delegates
5. Pan right, Queen Sofía walks up to the podium
6. Med shot, Burkina Faso delegation
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Queen Sofía of Spain:
“Today, Africa’s boys and girls are in our thoughts. I would like to dedicate in particular some heartfelt words to the girls that were kidnapped in Nigeria. I want to tell her parents that their daughters are our daughters, their pain is our pain, their hope, ours.”
8. Wide shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Queen Sofía of Spain:
“25 years ago, the first generation of children protected by the Convention on the Rights of the Child was born. Nevertheless, there is still much that remains to be done for that Convention to be truly complete and effective. In that sense, we must ensure that the new sustainable development objectives include children’s rights as a priority and in an effective way.”
10. Various shots, audience applause
11. Various shots, Queen Sofía of Spain meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Storyline

Queen Sofía of Spain today (3 June) remembered the Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group and told their parents that “their daughters are our daughters, their pain is our pain, their hope, ours.”

Queen Sofia was addressing the opening session of the 2014 meeting of UNICEF’s Executive Board as she began a two-day visit to New York.

More than 200 girls are being held captive since April 14 by Boko Haram after being kidnapped from a school in the town of Chibok.

The Queen, in her first public appearance since the announcement of her husband, King Juan Carlos’ abdication, said that 25 years after the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, “much that remains to be done for that Convention to be truly complete and effective.”

In that sense, she added, “we must ensure that the new sustainable development objectives include children’s rights as a priority and in an effective way.”

The Executive Board is the governing body of UNICEF, providing intergovernmental support and oversight to the organization, in accordance with the overall policy guidance of the United Nations General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council.