DOHA / HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The United Nations said today that the key challenge in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking is raising money for its Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons. UNIFEED-UNTV

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STORY: DOHA / HUMAN TRAFFICKING
TRT: 02:53
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2015, DOHA, QATAR

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Doha skyline
2. Wide shot, exterior of the conference centre
3. Wide shot, podium
4. Wide shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC:
"The Fund helps to ensure that women, children and men who have been exploited by traffickers are identified and provided with the assistance, protection and support needed for their physical, psychological and social recovery."
6.Cutaway, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons:
"In particular NGO's must be considered not only as service providers but also as strategic partners in designing and implementing anti-trafficking policies"
8. Wide shot, podium
9. Close up, Adepelumi at podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Adepelumi, Executive Director, ACAHD:
"As an NGO, we have a direct relationship with them and we understand communities better we understand their needs better and we provide the kind of support they need better. The government is interested in providing the legal framework, government is providing the infrastructure in institutions, the government is not directly involved."
11.Wide shot, Danuwar speaking at the podium
12. Close up, Danuwar
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Danuwar, President Of The Board, NGO Shakti Samuha:
"I am also a survivor, I was the age of fourteen, and at that time traffickers trafficked me into a brothel in India, Mumbai, so after six months I was rescued in Mumbai."
14. Close up, table with products
15. Wide shot, Danuwar at the podium
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Danuwar, President Of The Board, NGO Shakti Samuha:
" Shakti means power in English and Samuha means group so, shakti samuha means power groups."
17. Tilt down, Human Trafficking banner
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Danuwar, President Of The Board, NGO Shakti Samuha:
"Nowadays, the government also honours us because they say [for us] they are heroes on the community level because when they face problems they also prevent other girls to be trafficked."
19. Podium
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons:
"States have their obligations and have to fulfil their obligations in the field of victims’ rights protection including allocating adequate funding for NGOs."
21. Wide shot, audience

Storyline

The United Nations said today that the key challenge in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking is raising money for its Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons.

The UN General Assembly established the Trust Fund in 2010 through a Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons.

The Trust Fund provides humanitarian, legal and financial aid to victims through established channels of assistance, including governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. It is also enabling survivors to seek justice against their traffickers in court.

Some two thousand victims annually benefitted from direct assistance, including provision of shelter, basic health services, vocational training and schooling, as well as psychosocial, legal and economic support.

Speaking at the high-level event in Doha, Qatar, the executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Yury Fedotov said "the Fund helps to ensure that women, children and men who have been exploited by traffickers are identified and provided with the assistance, protection and support needed for their physical, psychological and social recovery."

Speaking also at the event, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, a UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons underlined the importance of NGOs in providing assistance to victims of trafficking.

She said "in particular NGOs must be considered not only as service providers but also as strategic partners in designing and implementing anti-trafficking policies."

Paul Adepelumi, the executive director of the African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD) an NGO that is helping victims of human trafficking in Nigeria pointed out different approach of his NGO and the government.

Adepelumi said "as an NGO, we have a direct relationship with them and we understand communities better we understand their needs better and we provide the kind of support they need better. The government is interested in providing the legal framework, government is providing the infrastructure in institutions, and the government is not directly involved."

Shakti Samuha, an NGO from Nepal was established and is managed by the survivors of trafficking themselves. Its president, Sunita Danuwar was trafficked from her native Nepal to India when she was only fourteen years old.

Since it was established, the Trust Fund has received some two million dollars in paid contributions from nineteen Member States and over thirty private-sector donors.

During the first three-year grant cycle that ended last December, a total of eleven projects worldwide received nearly seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the second cycle, the UNODC identified ninety-one projects as eligible for funding, and the Board of Trustees recommended seventeen projects for grant funding of nearly one million dollars.

Unfortunately, only these seventeen projects could be funded with the money available. The Board recommended keeping a further fifty-four eligible projects on a reserve list, should more funding be provided.